Eric of Monty Python

The answer

IDLE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDLE answer page.

Used 31 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1991. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDLE

Every other clue in this collection answered by IDLE, most used first.

• Doing nothing - used 237 times, most recently in 2026
• Not doing anything - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
• Inactive - used 154 times, most recently in 2026
• Not busy - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
• Between jobs - used 87 times, most recently in 2025
• Just sitting around - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Run in neutral - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Twiddling one's thumbs - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• Unemployed - used 61 times, most recently in 2019
• Not active - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Not in use - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Run in place - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Goofing off - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• At rest - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Not up to much - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Not doing much - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Out of work - used 31 times, most recently in 2018
• Like some threats - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Run without moving - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• Just hanging around - used 27 times, most recently in 2024

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Idle of Monty Python - ERIC, used 71 times

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