| Kind of rumor | 13 |
| Keep the engine running in park | 31 |
| Insignificant, as chatter | 25 |
| Having no basis | 15 |
| Gathering dust, e.g. | 20 |
| Gather dust | 11 |
| Furloughed | 10 |
| Fritter away time | 17 |
| Far from busy | 13 |
| Eric of Monty Python | 20 |
| Eric of "Monty Python" | 32 |
| Enjoying some time off | 22 |
| Be in neutral | 13 |
| Be a layabout | 13 |
| Asleep, say | 11 |
| All the unemployed and some of the rich | 39 |
| Word with gossip or chatter | 27 |
| Word with curiosity or speculation | 34 |
| Without a job | 13 |
| What Oasis stressed "The Importance of Being" | 55 |
| What a successful rocker can be? | 32 |
| Waiting for an assignment | 25 |
| Waiting at a stoplight, probably | 32 |
| Wait while running? | 19 |
| Wait in neutral | 15 |
| Wait for a light, perhaps | 25 |
| Wait for a light | 16 |
| Wait curbside, often | 20 |
| Useless, as chatter | 19 |
| Unmeaningful | 12 |
| Type of rumor | 13 |
| Type of gear or pulley | 22 |
| Type of curiosity or speculation | 32 |
| Twiddling thumbs | 16 |
| Trivial, as chatter | 19 |
| This isn't working? | 23 |
| Taking a break from work | 24 |
| Stay neutral? | 13 |
| Stay in neutral | 15 |
| Sitting on your butt | 20 |
| Sitting it out | 14 |
| Sitting by | 10 |
| Sit in traffic, say | 19 |
| Sit in neutral | 14 |
| Sit at a traffic light, perhaps | 31 |
| Sit at a stoplight | 18 |
| Shiftless; slothful | 19 |
| Sans employment | 15 |
| Run while standing still | 24 |
| Run while standing | 18 |
| Run in neutral, perhaps | 23 |
| Run in a traffic jam? | 21 |
| Run but go nowhere | 18 |
| Run at the curb | 15 |
| Run at a red light? | 19 |
| Run at the light | 17 |
| Recumbent or truant | 19 |
| Put it in neutral | 17 |
| Put in neutral | 14 |
| Park with the engine running | 28 |
| Pal of Palin | 12 |
| Out of work, e.g. | 17 |
| Onetime cohort of Cleese, Palin et al. | 38 |
| On strike | 9 |
| On one's keister | 20 |
| On one's duff | 17 |
| On hiatus | 9 |
| On break | 8 |
| Off-line, perhaps | 17 |
| Oasis "The Importance of Being ___" | 45 |
| Not very active | 15 |
| Not scheduled to compete | 24 |
| Not productive | 14 |
| Not playing today | 17 |
| Not playing this week | 21 |
| Not lifting a finger | 20 |
| Not kept busy | 13 |
| Not in harness | 14 |
| Not in drive or reverse | 23 |
| Not employed | 12 |
| Not doing much right now | 24 |
| Not currently occupied | 22 |
| Neutral state? | 14 |
| Monty Python's Eric | 23 |
| Monty Python performer | 22 |
| Monty Python member Eric | 24 |
| Monty Python member and composer Eric | 37 |
| Member of Cleese and Chapman's cohort | 41 |
| Lying around | 12 |
| Loitering, e.g. | 15 |
| Loaf at work | 12 |
| Like someone taking five | 24 |
| Like some gossip or hands | 25 |
| Like hands, when not rocking | 28 |
| Like hands co-opted by the Devil? | 33 |
| Like doodling | 13 |
| Like computers with screen savers running | 41 |
| Like Coleridge's "painted ship" | 45 |
| Like band between albums, perhaps | 33 |
| Like an ineffective threat | 26 |