Sits in traffic

The answer

IDLES

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

Used 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDLES

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

• Runs in neutral - used 72 times, most recently in 2025
• Does nothing - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Wastes time - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Loafs - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
• Runs in place - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Runs without moving - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Twiddles one's thumbs - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Doesn't do anything - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Kills time - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Sits in neutral - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Runs while standing still - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Waits at the light - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Doesn't do much - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Just sits around - used 6 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.

• Traffic light color - AMBER, used 38 times
• Traffic tie-up - SNARL, used 35 times
• Traffic cone - PYLON, used 33 times
• Traffic jam - TIEUP, used 32 times
• Join the flow of traffic - MERGE, used 18 times
• Traffic tangle - SNARL, used 18 times

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