The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DALLY , but the solution may also be IDLE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Waste time crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DALLY | 26 % | 5 |
| DAWDLE | 18 % | 6 |
| DILLYDALLY | 11 % | 10 |
| IDLE | 8 % | 4 |
| FIDDLEAROUND | 5 % | 12 |
| LAZE | 5 % | 4 |
| FOOL | 3 % | 4 |
| LOAF | 3 % | 4 |
| GOOFOFF | 3 % | 7 |
| LOITER | 3 % | 6 |
| DIDDLE | 3 % | 6 |
| FOOLAROUND | 2 % | 10 |
| FOOL AROUND | 2 % | 11 |
| MESS | 2 % | 4 |
| FOOTLE | 2 % | 6 |
| LALLYGAG | 2 % | 8 |
| FRIBBLE | 2 % | 7 |
Why may FOOL-AROUND be the right solution?
The phrase "fool around" means to engage in aimless or unproductive activities, which perfectly matches the clue "waste time."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Waste time
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- time-waste
- kill time
- dawdle
- fool around
- while
- waste
- dally
- idle
- laze
- moodle
- faff around
- fiddle away
Crossword Answer definitions
DALLY verb- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DALLY
More clues leading to the result DAWDLE
- Dilly-dally
- Lallygag
- Waste time
- Take forever to get moving
- Loiter
- Dillydally or shilly-shally
- Be poky
- Take one's own sweet time
- Shilly-shally
- Dillydally
More clues leading to the result DILLYDALLY
- Waste time
- Procrastinate
- Drag one's feet
- Loiter
- Waste time.
- Loiter.
- Waste time by delay
- Dawdle
- Take one's time
- Tarry
More clues leading to the result IDLE
- Lay off
- Like some threats
- Not in use
- Not working
- Twiddling one's thumbs
- Cleese's cohort, once
- Inactive
- Like chatter, perhaps
- Run in neutral
- Unoccupied
More clues leading to the result FIDDLEAROUND
More clues leading to the result LAZE
- Be a loafer
- Dilly-dally
- Act the couch potato
- Loaf
- Act like a couch potato
- Do a whole bunch of nothing
- Do little
- Sit around and do nothing
- Chillax
- Take it easy
More clues leading to the result FOOL
- Creamy dessert
- Blockhead
- April 1 victim
- "He who hesitates," per Mae West
- Idiot
- Meatball
- One who sits on a whoopee cushion
- Start of an eight-word stepquote
- Hoodwink
- Pull a prank on
More clues leading to the result LOAF
- Bum around
- Fritter away the time
- Rye unit
- Sugar or bread follower
- Act the beach bum
- Bread's form
- Go on a staycation
- Kill time
- Bakery purchase
- Don't work much
More clues leading to the result GOOFOFF
More clues leading to the result LOITER
- Hang around
- Kill time in public
- Lollygag
- Dillydally
- Don't make oneself useful
- Kill time
- Remain without a reason
- Hang out
- Hang, so to speak
- Mill around
More clues leading to the result DIDDLE
- With "around," waste time
- Cheat with a con
- Defraud
- Toy (with)
- Waste time
- Dance jerkily: Colloq.
- Cheat.
- Cheat
More clues leading to the result FOOLAROUND
More clues leading to the result FOOL AROUND
More clues leading to the result MESS
- Boot-camp fare
- Interfere
- Military meal
- Not a pretty sight
- Quantico cuisine
- Recruit's dinner
- Shambles
- Teen's room, often
- Army chow
- Predicament