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 |
| LAZE | 5 % | 4 |
| FIDDLEAROUND | 5 % | 12 |
| LOAF | 3 % | 4 |
| DIDDLE | 3 % | 6 |
| FOOL | 3 % | 4 |
| LOITER | 3 % | 6 |
| GOOFOFF | 3 % | 7 |
| FOOL AROUND | 2 % | 11 |
| LALLYGAG | 2 % | 8 |
| MESS | 2 % | 4 |
| FRIBBLE | 2 % | 7 |
| FOOTLE | 2 % | 6 |
| FOOLAROUND | 2 % | 10 |
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 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 FIDDLEAROUND
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 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 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 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 GOOFOFF
More clues leading to the result FOOL AROUND
More clues leading to the result LALLYGAG
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