Word "IDLER" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
person who does no work
Synonyms:
bum, do-nothing, layabout, loafer

Crossword Clues for IDLER

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Clue Source Date
Lazy person The Telegraph Mini 25 Oct 2025
Individual doing little except relax initially The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Oct 2025
More lazy Puzzler Backwords 12 Oct 2025
One inactive feature of scoundrel disappointingly making a comeback The Times Cryptic 29 Sep 2025
Lazy person awfully riled (5) Puzzler Cryptic 28 Sep 2025
Slacker The Telegraph Mini 05 Sep 2025
Wastrel diligently keeps himself laid back (5) The Guardian Cryptic 03 Sep 2025
Individual doing little except relaxing, primarily? (5) The Guardian Quiptic 31 Aug 2025
Lazy person Puzzler Backwords 23 Jul 2025
Somehow riled layabout (5)
Lazybones to indulge pro alternately (5) Puzzler Cryptic 01 Jul 2025
Work-shy individual
Ride away after stealing large gold brick (5)
Do-nothing LA Times Mini 21 Jun 2025
Lazy person awfully riled (5) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Jun 2025
Ireland managed to get rid of an easy-going layabout (5)
Riled about the wastrel (5)
More lazy Puzzler Backwords 15 May 2025
Lazybones may be riled
Goof-off Newsday 08 May 2025
Lazy person Newsday 06 May 2025
Loafer relied on working without energy Mirror Cryptic 03 May 2025
Dreamer Mirror Quick 03 May 2025
Loafer Mirror Classic 27 Apr 2025
Lazy sort Wall Street Journal 26 Apr 2025
Layabout's badly riled (5)
Workshy type The Telegraph Mini 18 Apr 2025
Less inclined to be a member of the working class! (5)
Sluggard Wall Street Journal 16 Apr 2025
Turning 50, detective retired on being unwilling to work The Times Cryptic 11 Apr 2025
Lazy car part (5)
Lazybones, say The Telegraph Mini 01 Apr 2025
He might get riled, but he does nothing about it (5)
Lazy sort Thomas Joseph 26 Mar 2025
One whiling away the time LA Times Daily 23 Mar 2025
Sloth centrally amidst candlewood forks (5)
Trainee in dire trouble, one doesn't do very much (5)
Pupil in dire trouble: he's lazy (5)
Person doing nothing Newsday 05 Mar 2025
Lazy person who dislikes work (5)
Sluggard and I had side-splitting ending of repartee The Times Cryptic 25 Feb 2025
Frivolous waster of time! (5)
Lazy person Puzzler Backwords 23 Feb 2025
Lazy so-and-so (5) The Guardian Speedy 23 Feb 2025
More lazy (5) Puzzler 22 Feb 2025
Goof-off LA Times Mini 19 Feb 2025
Layabout (5) The Guardian Quick 14 Feb 2025
I had left with little sign of hesitation as one with no desire for work The Times Quick Cryptic 06 Feb 2025
Person at a loose end The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 02 Feb 2025
Lazy sort Thomas Joseph 01 Feb 2025
One not up to much The Telegraph Plusword 28 Jan 2025
Being lazy, you move the lid then hesitate (5)
Person not doing anything The Telegraph Plusword 24 Jan 2025
Loafer, layabout (5)
The ___ Wheel (abridged version of a 23-word Fiona Apple album title)
Person not doing much to earn their reputation (5)
Less industrious layabout (5)
Loafer Mirror Classic 06 Jan 2025
He's wasting time introducing Liberal to topless equestrian
Lazy person, loafer (5)
Loafer left in dire trouble (5)
Person who does no work (5)
A 1924 Times article headed <i>An Enslaved America </i>described early crosswords as "the pastime of a few ingenious ____s" The Times Specialist Sunday 22 Dec 2024
A 1924 Times article headed An Enslaved America described early crosswords as "the pastime of a few ingenious ____s"
Youngster losing head hands round drug, one unlikely to work The Times Cryptic 18 Dec 2024
Time-waster(5)
He's so lazy! Left in the middle of a ride!
A slacker
Lazy person Newsday 04 Dec 2024
One sitting in neutral
Lazybones Wall Street Journal 16 Nov 2024
Lazybones The Telegraph Mini 11 Nov 2024
Workshy individual lied about source of revenue The Telegraph Toughie 07 Nov 2024
Lazy fellow is awfully riled (5)
One doing little; riled (anag.) The Telegraph Mini 29 Oct 2024
He does nothing but just tick over? (5)
Lazier
Not a hard worker, actress Bette taking month off The Telegraph Toughie 09 Oct 2024
Loafer Mirror Classic 07 Oct 2024
Badly riled shirker (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 05 Oct 2024
Badly riled shirker (5) The Guardian Quick 05 Oct 2024
He could get riled if made to work
He won't do much to earn his reputation (5)
Layabout The Telegraph Mini 30 Sep 2024
Lazybones, time-waster (5)
Do-nothing sort
He's not working for money in throwing ride (5)
Layabout The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 26 Sep 2024
Habitually lazy person
A do-nothing (5)
Loafer wrapped in bridle-reins (5)
Loafer in crimson I raised, heel finally slipped into it The Times Quick Cryptic 10 Sep 2024
Lazy man experiences dire change about fifty (5)
Inactive person (5)
I turn red at 50 for being called a lazy fellow
Swimming riled lazybones
Doing nothing, replacing a bludger (5)
Lazy sort Premier Sunday 28 Jul 2024
Layabout The Telegraph Quick 22 Jul 2024
Lazy person Newsday 15 Jul 2024
Habitually indolent person (5)
Lazy person who avoids work (5)
Trainee driver in hazardous ride is not so active (5)
Inactive one who kills time (5)
Lazy fellow is doing little edifying revision for starters (5)
Lazy person Puzzler Backwords 15 Jun 2024
Layabout I'd left with hesitation
Badly riled, he's not keen to work (5)
He doesn't do much to earn his reputation (5)
That lazy fellow lied? Right! I'll change that!
Relied on working without eastern loafer Mirror Cryptic 25 May 2024
Dreamer Mirror Quick 25 May 2024
He's riled perhaps but he does nothing
Lazy sort Thomas Joseph 26 Apr 2024
Lazy person experiences dire change about fifty (5)
Unproductive person
The lazy one is with that horrid Leroy
Indolent person
Riled (anag.) The Guardian Quick 16 Apr 2024
Lied about royal loafer (5)
One doing nothing to rid the French of him (5)
One only comparatively indolent? (5)
Angry, I left in "backward and a shirker" (5)
Eric, perhaps, accompanied by Rex, lazy type (5)
A lazy person
Paid Leroy to entertain waster (5)
Bump on a log, so to speak
Being nonchalant at the end of the quarter, he wastes time (5)
Lied about having the right to be a lazy person
Workshy sort hands round European papers, at first (5)
Loafer Mirror Classic 20 Feb 2024
Lazybones riled when sozzled The Sun Two Speed 19 Feb 2024
Layabout The Sun Two Speed 19 Feb 2024
Riled about lazy person (5)
Current line in article from Frankfurt? One's not seriously engaged (5)
Slob heads for introductory date looking extremely rough The Guardian Quiptic 22 Jan 2024
Slob heads for introductory date looking extremely rough (5)
Loafer left in dire mess (5) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Jan 2024
Lazy person Newsday 09 Jan 2024
Slacker lied about beginning resume (5)
Doctor riled lazy person (5)
Relied on performing without English dreamer (5)
Lazybones Premier Sunday 17 Dec 2023
Lied about having the right to be out of work
Loafer gets terribly riled Mirror Cryptic 09 Dec 2023
Dreamer Mirror Quick 09 Dec 2023
He's riled perhaps but does very little
Lazybones The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2023
Less occupied LA Times Daily 09 Nov 2023
Lazy person riled when exercising The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Nov 2023
Lazy sort Thomas Joseph 23 Oct 2023
Person just hanging around Newsday 31 Jul 2023
Shiftless sort New York Times 27 Jun 2023
Do-nothing Newsday 01 Jun 2023
Layabout The Times Concise 27 May 2023
Goof-off Newsday 24 Mar 2023
Loafer found in bridle-road The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Dec 2022
Find algebra regularly hard work? One avoiding it The Times Cryptic 20 Oct 2022
Individual doing little except relax initially The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Oct 2022
Lazybones unusually riled The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Oct 2022
Time-waster is a little scoundrel, dithering around The Telegraph Toughie 15 Sep 2022
Lazybones Wall Street Journal 07 May 2022
Lazy sort Wall Street Journal 09 Apr 2022
Layabout led astray in centre of Beirut
Lazy sort Thomas Joseph 25 Feb 2022
Lazy fellow Thomas Joseph 24 Feb 2022
Bum is riled up
Middle gear learner driver engaged in frightful ride The Times Cryptic 20 Dec 2021
Dr Johnson’s essay series The ____ included Sleep and Robbery of Time The Times Specialist Sunday 28 Nov 2021
Do-nothing Wall Street Journal 13 Nov 2021
Lazy person The Times Concise 08 Nov 2021
One doing very little in bridle-roads
Do-nothing The Washington Post 10 Oct 2021
Do-nothing LA Times Daily 10 Oct 2021
Ne'er-do-well I had left with the Queen The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Oct 2021
Lazy person Newsday 01 Sep 2021
Couch potato, e.g Universal 26 Aug 2021
I had left leading lady with little to do
Hardly a workaholic Wall Street Journal 01 Jul 2021
One wasting time The Washington Post Sunday 11 Apr 2021
Indulge, oddly, poetaster's ending — his work's limited
Lazy person Newsday 30 Mar 2021
Lazy person Universal 13 Mar 2021
Lazy fellow Thomas Joseph 05 Mar 2021
One doing nothing Newsday 03 Mar 2021
Lazy fellow I had left with hesitation
Slacker, first to ignore dinner, left for pub The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jan 2021
Layabout Universal 30 Nov 2020
One stuck in traffic, at times The Washington Post 15 Nov 2020
One stuck in traffic, at times LA Times Daily 15 Nov 2020
Slothful sort The Washington Post 25 Oct 2020
Slothful sort LA Times Daily 25 Oct 2020
Lazy type The Telegraph Quick 21 Oct 2020
Kill deer ignoring elk or do nothing? Irish Times Crosaire 20 Oct 2020
Indolent type I had left with hesitation
Indolent type I had left, with hesitation The Times Cryptic 22 Sep 2020
Lazy sort Wall Street Journal 18 May 2020
One unoccupied snug oddly ignored by indulgers The Telegraph Toughie 15 May 2020
Loafer may go around dreamily
Layabout almost direly wasted
Sloth is dawdling, leaving exceptional runners always at the front
Loafing individual Universal 10 Apr 2020
Lazybones The Washington Post 01 Apr 2020
Lazybones LA Times Daily 01 Apr 2020
Inactive individual The Washington Post Sunday 15 Dec 2019
Do-nothing The Times Concise 01 Dec 2019
Divine Miss M beheaded layabout The Sun Two Speed 21 Nov 2019
Lazybones The Sun Two Speed 21 Nov 2019
Lazybones strangely riled
Thumb-twiddling sort USA Today 24 Sep 2019
Lazy person The Times Concise 19 Sep 2019
Lounger is unused, to a greater extent The Telegraph Toughie 08 Aug 2019
Layabout seen in bridle road
Layabout The Telegraph Quick 24 Jul 2019
Unproductive one Newsday 14 Jul 2019
Layabout The Sun Two Speed 22 Jun 2019
Lazybones riled when sozzled The Sun Two Speed 22 Jun 2019
Lazy fellow Wall Street Journal 26 Mar 2019
Deadbeat takes lid off booze – be gone!
Loafer The Telegraph Quick 07 Mar 2019
Bette, say, axing male who can't motivate himself
Lazybones Jonesin 05 Feb 2019
One loitering New York Times 31 Jan 2019
Less active Universal 28 Jan 2019
Lazy fellow
Thumb-twiddling sort
Less active
One loitering
Slacker Universal 26 Dec 2018
Loafer Canadiana 10 Dec 2018
Do-nothing The Washington Post 09 Dec 2018
Do-nothing LA Times Daily 09 Dec 2018
One doing nothing USA Today 05 Dec 2018
Lazy type, terribly riled
Sleeper in a hammock, e.g Universal 27 Oct 2018
Lied about writing gear
Lazy hammock occupant
Pulley that moves sideways, but not at first The Telegraph Toughie 11 Sep 2018
Do-nothing New York Times 15 Aug 2018
One with little to do Universal 13 Jul 2018
Wastrel filling barrel dithered around
Lazybones unusually riled The Sun Two Speed 04 May 2018
Lazy sort Universal 09 Apr 2018
Loafer The Washington Post Sunday 25 Mar 2018
Garfield, notably Newsday 10 Mar 2018
Shiftless sort Wall Street Journal 01 Mar 2018
Goldbrick The Washington Post 27 Jan 2018
Reluctant worker regularly indulged, taking rest principally
Goldbrick LA Times Daily 27 Jan 2018
One in an airport taxi line, for the most part LA Times Daily 21 Jan 2018
One in an airport taxi line, for the most part The Washington Post 21 Jan 2018
Occasionally indulge then run briefly -- lazybones The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jan 2018
Loafer left in dire mess The Sun Two Speed 02 Jan 2018
Lazy type The Sun Two Speed 02 Jan 2018
Slacker
Lazy sort
Do-nothing
One doing nothing
Do-nothing
Goldbrick
Lazybones
One in an airport taxi line, for the most part
Sleeper in a hammock, e.g.
One with little to do
Do-nothing Eugene Sheffer 29 Dec 2017
Wastrel The Telegraph Quick 30 Sep 2017
You needn't do anything to earn this title
I had clerk starting late and finishing early — layabout
One just twiddling his thumbs Universal 04 Jul 2017
Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one LA Times Daily 12 Jun 2017
Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one The Washington Post 12 Jun 2017
Thumb twiddler LA Times Daily 29 May 2017
Thumb twiddler The Washington Post 29 May 2017
Apathetic sort, jockey dropping lead hurdling last in National
Aesop's grasshopper, e.g Wall Street Journal 20 May 2017
Lazybones is uncommonly riled
Perhaps Eric Morecambe's third appearance as layabout
Layabout New York Times 23 Mar 2017
Couch potato New York Times 15 Mar 2017
Person doing nothing Newsday 07 Feb 2017
Lazy person The Telegraph Quick 20 Jan 2017
One just twiddling his thumbs
Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one
Thumb twiddler
Couch potato
Layabout
One not seeking work Universal 12 Nov 2016
Stepford wife takes her top off and reveals bum
One taking it easy Universal 10 Oct 2016
Good-for-nothing makes Bette lose her head The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Oct 2016
Couch potato's topless 'Supermarket Queen'
I led revolt against right layabout
Layabout, loafer Irish Times Simplex 05 Jul 2016
Good-for-nothing compiler had line with Queen The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jun 2016
Lazy type Premier Sunday 22 May 2016
Goldbrick New York Times 01 May 2016
Layabout unusually riled
Laggard Newsday 26 Feb 2016
Work shirker The Washington Post 11 Feb 2016
Layabout The Washington Post 09 Feb 2016
One had empty life, right? The Telegraph Toughie 05 Feb 2016
Quarrel didn't hold back lazybones The Sun Two Speed 26 Jan 2016
Layabout unusually riled
One taking up slack? LA Times Daily 08 Jan 2016
One not seeking work
One taking up slack?
One with nothing to do Universal 23 Dec 2015
Sluggard Newsday 15 Oct 2015
Sluggard Eugene Sheffer 26 Sep 2015
Won't work to upset all the Spanish in research and development institute Irish Times Crosaire 23 Sep 2015
Thumb-twiddler Universal 15 Sep 2015
Layabout getting stripped weirdly out of shape
Slacker New York Times 01 Jul 2015
One with nothing to do USA Today 24 May 2015
Lazy type, horribly riled
Lazy person's papers on the French Resistance The Times Cryptic 28 Apr 2015
Hammock occupant Eugene Sheffer 22 Apr 2015
Aesop's grasshopper, notably The Chronicle of Higher Education 10 Apr 2015
Ne'er-do-well Newsday 26 Mar 2015
Lazybones Newsday 22 Mar 2015
Getaway car, during the robbery Universal 13 Feb 2015
Papers from the French Republican won't work Irish Times Crosaire 23 Jan 2015
Loafer
Lazybones
Aesop's grasshopper, notably
Lazybones
Lazy person
Slacker
Getaway car, during the robbery
One with nothing to do
Thumb-twiddler
One who's no dynamo
Layabout
One with nothing to do
Ne'er-do-well
Sluggard
Lollard queen mounted by Eric?
lazybones
Unproductive sort
Goldbrick
Thumb twiddler
Do-nothing
Thumb-twiddler
Layabout
Do-nothing person
Hardly a doer
Good-for-nothing
Hardly a workaholic
Every so often, find old queen for drone
Gentleman of leisure?
Loafer
Slacking sort
Lazybones
One who goldbricks
Do-nothing
Dynamo's antithesis
Lazybones
Layabout
Aesop's grasshopper, for one
One walking furtively avoids sun lounger
Fabled grasshopper, for one
Shiftless sort
Car at a long light, say
Shiftless type
Thumb twiddler
Loiterer
Car at a long light, say
Fabled grasshopper, for one
Thumb twiddler
Layabout
Do-nothing
Slugabed
Layabout
Car in a jam, say
Slugabed
Car in a jam, say
Slouch
Dynamo's antithesis
Hammock occupant
The grasshopper in "The Ant and the Grasshopper," e.g.
Less active
Slugabed
Work shirker
Ambitionless one
Time waster
Work shirker
Clock watcher
Lazy type
Slacker
Lazy type
Lazy one
Hardly a workaholic
Slacker
Goof-off
Time-waster
Laggard
Laggard
Laggard
Shiftless sort
Slacker
Shiftless sort
Shiftless type
Shiftless sort
One just sitting around
One loafing
Do-nothing
Ne'er-do-well
Loafer
Loafer
One with no to-do lists
Do-nothing
Slouch
Lazy person
Lazy sort
Couch potato, e.g.
He doesn't do much
Lazybones
Lazybones
Less important, as talk
Less important, as talk
Wastrel
Loafer
Couch potato, e.g.
Ne'er-do-well
Loafer
Do-nothing
Slugabed
Layabout
Thumb-twiddler
Sluggard
Goldbrick
Ambitionless one
Do-nothing
Hardly a workaholic
One goofing off
Shiftless sort
Goof-off
Goof-off
Lazybones
Goof-off
Hardly a workaholic
One goofing off
Dynamo's antithesis
Lazy sort
Wastrel
One with time to spare
Lazy bum
Gentleman of leisure?
Loafer
Do-nothing
Lazybones
Loafer
Goof-off
One just sitting around
Couch potato
One with nothing to do
Lazybones
Time-waster
Clock watcher
Do-nothing
Lazy one
Lazybones
Goof-off
Lazy bones
Slacker
Couch potato
Lazy sort
Ne'er-do-well
Goldbrick
Couch potato
Singer losing her head for fine gentleman
Good-for-nothing
Getaway car, during the robbery
Layabout
Clock watcher
Time waster
Sluggard
Lazy one
Time waster
Couch potato
Time waster
Goldbrick
Car in a jam
Loafer
Ambitionless one
Goldbrick
Good-for-nothing
Time waster
Ne'er-do-well
Inactive one
Sluggard
Shiftless one
Ambitionless one
Good-for-nothing
Lotus-eater
Flâneur
Flâneur or lazzarone
Flâneur or fainéant
Fainéant
Drugstore cowboy
Lazy person
Drone
Otiose one
Lazzarone
Believer in more than half a loaf?
Goof-off
Lazy one
Lazy bones
Time waster
Flaneur
Lounge lizard
Empty railroad car
Unambitious one
Vagrant
Certain gear
Samuel Johnson's "The ___"
He kills time
Park-bench habitué
"Drugstore cowboy"
"Lounge lizard"
Wastrel
Type of pulley
Empty flatcar
Wastrel.
Lazybones.
Slothful one.
Loafer.
Twiddle-one's-thumbs one.
Drone.
Flaneur
Lounger.
An empty railroad car.
Lazy bones.
Snail.
Slowpoke.
Waster.
Rip Van Winkle was one.
Time waster.
Clock watcher's cousin.
A fool of time.
Sloth.
Do-nothing.
Empty railroad car.
Good-for-nothing.
Fainéant.
One on the side lines.
Take-it-easy-ite.
Dawdler.
Time-killer.
Faineant.
Dillydallier.
Sluggard.
Lazy one.
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