Thumb twiddler

The answer

IDLER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDLER answer page.

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2017. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DALLIER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for IDLER

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

• Do-nothing - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Lazybones - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Loafer - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Layabout - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Lazy sort - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Couch potato - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Goof-off - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Lazy person - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Sluggard - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Lazy one - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
• Ne'er-do-well - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Shiftless sort - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Drone. - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Time waster - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Slacker - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Goldbrick - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Good-for-nothing - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Wastrel - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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• Stick out like ___ thumb - ASORE, used 25 times

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