| Early bird victim | 17 |
| Draw (out) craftily | 19 |
| Dirt denizen | 12 |
| Destructive computer program | 28 |
| Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers) | 83 |
| Computer concern | 16 |
| Bit of bait from the backyard | 29 |
| Apple spoiler | 13 |
| Apple problem | 13 |
| Apple dweller? | 14 |
| Annelid | 7 |
| Ratty | 5 |
| Moved like a night crawler | 26 |
| Brought about, deviously | 24 |
| Dog medicine | 12 |
| Three after ''inch'' | 36 |
| Unwelcome sight on an apple | 27 |
| Theoretical space passageway | 28 |
| Theoretical passageway in space | 31 |
| Hypothetical feature of the space-time continuum | 48 |
| Most sycophantic | 16 |
| Get involved with insidiously | 29 |
| Hook attachments | 16 |
| W German city | 13 |
| Squirmy bait | 12 |
| Some of them are flukes | 23 |
| Robin snacks | 12 |
| Payoff for early birds | 22 |
| Ordinary bait | 13 |
| Nature's aerators | 21 |
| Diet site | 9 |
| Diet of fame | 12 |
| Conficker et al. | 16 |
| Computer network menaces | 24 |
| City where Luther was condemned as a heretic | 44 |
| Beneficial compost pile residents | 33 |
| Basic bait | 10 |
| Angler's items | 18 |
| A lot of bait | 13 |
| View of a sort | 14 |
| Poor perspective | 16 |
| Ground-level sights | 19 |
| Like some bad apples | 20 |
| Like a bad apple, perhaps | 25 |
| Like healthy soil | 17 |
| Slightly tattered | 17 |
| Like secondhand clothing | 24 |
| Like bald tires | 15 |
| Hardly new-looking | 18 |
| Bald, as tires | 14 |
| Showing signs of use | 20 |
| Shabby from use | 15 |
| Needing patching | 16 |
| In need of patching | 19 |
| Beat-up | 7 |
| Tuckered (out) | 14 |
| Starting to come apart | 22 |
| Showing overuse | 15 |
| Old-looking | 11 |
| Needing patches | 15 |
| Needing a patch | 15 |
| In need of patching, e.g. | 25 |
| In need of a patch | 18 |
| Frayed, say | 11 |
| Damaged by use | 14 |
| A bit beat-up | 13 |
| ___ out (exhausted) | 19 |
| Like pencil nubs | 16 |
| Completely gone, like a buzz | 28 |
| Stopped working, as medicine | 28 |
| Dissipated, as a drug's effect | 34 |
| Long past its prime | 19 |
| Why the neighborhood dogs are wary? | 35 |
| What a self-invited guest might have | 36 |
| Threadbare patch? | 17 |
| Bald car parts | 14 |
| Potential cause of vehicular hydroplaning | 41 |
| Made rocker Grace anxious? | 26 |
| He of the knitted brow | 22 |
| Hardly the carefree sort | 24 |
| They expect the worst | 21 |
| Many nail-biters | 16 |
| They may keep you up at night | 29 |
| C A R E S | 9 |
| "What, me ___?" | 25 |
| Lose sleep over (with "about") | 40 |
| Lose sleep over | 15 |
| ''What, me ___?'' | 33 |
| Topic of quotation below | 24 |
| Kind of beads | 13 |
| It "often gives a small thing a big shadow": old proverb | 66 |
| Fret or chafe | 13 |
| End of Alfred E. Neuman's slogan | 36 |
| Cause of fitful sleep | 21 |
| "What, me ___?": Alfred E. Neuman line | 48 |
| "Interest paid on trouble before it falls due," per W. R. Inge | 72 |
| Rosary's nonreligious relative | 34 |
| It "gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere": Glenn Turner | 79 |
| "What's the use of ___?" | 38 |
| Fretful sorts | 13 |