Answer: IDLE
IDLE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 450 times.
- Not occupied
- Like some hands
- Not in use
- Lounge
- Nothing doing?
- Out of action
- Not going anywhere
- Wait at the light
- Off the job
- Groundless
- In neutral
- Not working
- Mothballed
- Kind of talk
- Loafing
- Not busy
- Run at the curb
- At rest
- Thumb-twiddling
- Goofing off
- Like some fears
- Not engaged
- Run without moving
- Just lying around
- Like some chatter
- Like some threats
- Like some rumors
- Like the Maytag repairman, in commercials
- Unused
- Barely run, as an engine
- Empty
- Waiting
- Leave in neutral
- Run while standing
- Kind of hands that are "the devil's playthings"
- Off
- Not playing
- Inactive
- Sitting on one's hands
- Between assignments
- Mark time
- Knock about
- Not scheduled to play
- Unfounded, as gossip
- Just twiddling the thumbs
- Taking a break from work
- Just twiddling one’s thumbs
- Having time on one's hands
- Just sitting there
- Unmeaningful
- Doing nothing
- Frequent Cleese co-star
- Daydreaming, perhaps
- Just chilling
- Like some thoughts
- Indolent
- Shelved
- Asleep, say
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Daydreaming, say
- Furloughed
- Between jobs
- Lay off
- Run in place
- Kind of speculation
- Still
- Trifling
- Frivolous
- Unemployed
- Going nowhere
- Not scheduled to compete
- Not doing anything
- No longer working
- Fallow
- On one's duff
- Just loafing
- Dillydally
- Monty Python's Eric
- Wait for the green light
- Not lifting a finger
- Wait for the light
- Actor Eric of "Monty Python"
- Lying around
- Like one who's taking five
- Hanging around
- Not active
- At liberty
- Run while disengaged
- "Monty Python" trouper
- Eric of Monty Python fame
- Eric of Monty Python
- Not in production
- Resting
- Marking time
- Emulate a couch potato
- Lazy
- Like a couch potato
- Kicked back
- On strike
- Comedic actor Eric
- At leisure
- Slothful
- Gathering dust
- On break, say
- Word before gossip or chatter
- Vegging out
- Comedian Eric
- Just twiddling one's thumbs
- Off-line, perhaps
- Up to nothing
- Far from busy
- Run in neutral
- Baseless
- Between tasks
- Monty Python member Eric
- Run in a traffic jam?
- Trivial, as chatter
- Run at a red light?
- What a getaway car may be waiting in
- Out of work
- Not in operation
- Meaningless
- Not being used
- Nothing-doing?
- Eric who wrote the book for "Spamalot"
- "Tears, ___ tears, I know not what they mean": Tennyson
- On one's keister
- Hanging, so to speak
- Wait in neutral
- Like a flâneur
- Run while stopped
- "___ hands are the devil's tools"
- Pal of Palin
- Potentially going into screen saver mode
- Dormant
- Just sitting around
- Hanging out, say
- Loaf at work
- Wait for the light to change
- Not in gear
- Sit at a red light
- Run out of gear
- Insignificant, as gossip
- Like inconsequential talk
- Neutral state?
- Monty Python troupe member
- Gathering dust, so to speak
- Do nothing
- Onetime cohort of Cleese, Palin et al.
- Loitering, e.g.
- "Spamalot" creator Eric
- Just hanging out
- Veg out
- Not in action
- Lazing
- Lazing about
- Monty Python member
- Not playing today
- Not moving
- Off from work
- Taking it easy
- Having no basis
- Just sitting
- ''At liberty,'' to performers
- Unoccupied
- Lounging
- In mothballs
- Kicking back
- Nonworking
- Unengaged
- Dilly-dallying
- Not up to anything
- Between gigs
- On the couch
- Type of curiosity
- Stay in neutral
- Doing plenty of nothing
- Be in neutral
- Doing zip
- Run, but go nowhere
- Not up to much
- Wait curbside, e.g.
- Run in neutral, perhaps
- Keep the car warm
- Out of work, e.g.
- Between engagements
- With time to kill
- Stagnate
- Python named Eric
- Causing a screen saver to start
- Be a layabout
- Wait for green
- Cleese cohort
- Unoccupied?
- Like hands the devil uses
- Gathering dust, e.g.
- Type of chatter
- Killing time
- Without work
- Sit in traffic
- Harmless, as threats
- Kind of chatter
- Wait curbside
- Unfounded, as rumors
- Keep the engine running
- Stagnating
- Wait for the green
- Wait while running?
- At a standstill
- On break
- Cause a screen saver to start
- Fritter away time
- Shiftless
- Just hanging, so to speak
- Run a car in neutral
- Not doing much of anything
- Like some gossip or hands
- Just hanging around
- Groundless, as rumors
- Pink-slip
- Like many rumors
- Like doodling
- Like hands co-opted by the Devil?
- Leave the engine running
- Wait for the start of the drag race
- Between chores
- "Spamalot" lyricist Eric
- Keep the engine running in park
- While away
- Lounging about
- Kill time
- Just twiddling ones thumbs
- Not productive
- "At liberty," to performers
- Enjoying some downtime
- Pointless
- Sit at a traffic light, perhaps
- Sit at a stoplight
- Sitting by
- Wait for the start of a drag race
- Word before "gossip" or "chatter"
- Shut down
- Disengaged
- Sitting it out
- Sitting around
- Not at work
- Save the V-8 juice?
- Stagnant
- Loaf
- Sans employment
- Busy loafing
- Member of Cleese and Chapman's cohort
- Without purpose
- Type of curiosity or speculation
- All the unemployed and some of the rich
- Enjoying some time off
- Word with "gossip" or "chatter"
- Loitering
- Like a loafer
- 'Spamalot' creator Eric
- 'Spamalot' creator
- Cleese co-star
- Comic Eric
- Cleese companion
- 'Spamalot' mastermind
- Enjoying the hammock
- What 27-Down isn't
- Enjoy the hammock
- Just standing around
- Napping
- Relaxing
- With 110-Down, they're said to be 'the devil's workshop'
- Run in park
- Run at the light
- Waiting for an assignment
- Wait for a light, perhaps
- Warming the bench, maybe
- Empty, as talk
- Sit at a light
- Nonproductive
- Park with the engine running
- Laid off
- Doing squat
- Barely run the engine
- Not employed
- On hiatus
- Ticks over
- Stay neutral?
- Like chitchat
- Have the car running in place
- Not currently occupied
- Between positions
- Like a bump on a log
- Not going
- Wait on a red light
- Groundless, as speculation
- Like a layabout
- This isn't working?
- Motionless
- Insignificant, as chatter
- Run while standing still
- Useless
- Sit in traffic, say
- Kind of threat
- "Spamalot" co-creator
- In a hammock, maybe
- Baseless, as a threat
- Not even part-time
- Not doing much
- Monty Python performer
- Between activities
- Eric of "Spamalot"
- Not doing much right now
- Away from a chat program, say
- Not in drive or reverse
- Out of a job
- Senseless
- Purposeless
- Lounging around
- In couch-potato mode
- On a break
- Lackadaisical
- Internet chat status
- Stationary
- Onetime Palin collaborator
- Kind of curiosity
- Wait to drag race
- Lollygag
- ___ talk
- Sit in neutral
- Having a day off
- "Spamalot" lyricist
- Be inactive
- On a break, say
- Loitering, say
- Unproductive
- Run at a red light
- Not busy at all
- Having nothing to do
- Not working today
- Without foundation
- Sit at a four-way stop, say
- Just chillin'
- Empty, as threats
- On the sidelines
- Like some chatter or threats
- "Spamalot" co-creator Eric
- While (away)
- Keep the car running
- Kind of chat
- Wasting time
- Waste of time
- Hollow, as a threat
- Take it easy
- Malinger
- "___ hands are the devil's playthings"
- Just sitting, say
- Eric of "Monty Python"
- Sitting around doing nothing
- Hardly working
- Needing something to do
- Run a car without moving
- Not on the schedule
- Not even slightly busy
- Taking a break
- Currently doing nothing
- Keep the car warm in the driveway
- Jobless
- Loafing around
- Thing to do at a red light
- Just loafing around
- Out of service
- Not at all serious, as threats
- Disengaged at the moment
- Not otherwise engaged
- Wait for a green light, say
- Empty, as a threat
- Futile
- Having some downtime
- Otiose
- Not doing too much
- Butt-on-couch
- Awaiting an assignment
- Running motionless
- Groundless, as a threat
- Sit at a red light, say
- Fruitless
- Pass the time
- Trivial, as talk
- Not at it
- Insignificant
- Baseless, as rumors
- Awaiting a task
- Waste gas
- Like much chitchat
- Run, but not move
- Not functioning
- Word from Old English for "useless"
- Having the day off
- Wait in traffic
- Wait at a stop sign, say
- Sit in park, say
- Lay off, as workers
- Kind of hands said to be the devil's playthings
- "___ hands are the devil's workshop"
- Twiddle one's thumbs
- "The devil finds work for ___ hands"
- Unbusy
- Like some speculation
- Awaiting orders, say
- With nothing to do
- Insubstantial
- Hang around
- Mindless, like chatter
- Not scheduled to play, as a pro team
- Sideline
- Word before rich or talk
- Running in neutral
- Not yet engaged?
- Duty-free?
- Like a team on a day off
- Keep an engine running without moving
- Waiting for an assignment, maybe
- Not do anything
- Like frivolous chatter
- Wait for the light to change, say
- Wait at a light, say
- Sit with the engine running
- Torpid
- ___ No More
- ___ threat
- Just waiting around
- See 12-Across
- Not currently active
- Run without moving, as a car
- Go nowhere with the engine on
- See 62-Across
- Have the engine on while parked
- Waste time
- Like a car waiting curbside
- Laze
- On a bye week
- Do squat
- Taking it real easy
- Not hard at work
- What an orange dot might indicate in a chat
- Collecting dust
- Chilling, maybe
- Unmoving
- Unmoving, perhaps