| Carpenter or soldier | 20 |
| Carpenter or army follower | 26 |
| Carpenter insect | 16 |
| Carpenter , e.g. | 16 |
| Carpenter __ | 12 |
| Busy colonist | 13 |
| Bug of the varieties sugar, fire, and yellow crazy | 50 |
| Breadcrumb carrier | 18 |
| Barbecue buttinsky | 18 |
| Army member? | 12 |
| Army insect | 11 |
| Aesop critter | 13 |
| Aardvark's quarry | 21 |
| Aardvark victim | 15 |
| "High Hopes" insect | 29 |
| "High Hopes" bug | 26 |
| "Goody Two Shoes" Adam | 32 |
| "B.C." bug | 20 |
| '80s Adam | 13 |
| Zeus's form when he seduced Eurymedusa | 42 |
| Z-4195, in film | 15 |
| Worker on a small farm | 22 |
| Worker on a farm | 16 |
| Worker in a colony | 18 |
| Worker _____ | 12 |
| Worker ___ | 10 |
| Word with white, red or black | 29 |
| Word with white or worker | 25 |
| Word with fire or red | 21 |
| Word with black, red or white | 29 |
| Word after red | 14 |
| Word after fire or carpenter | 28 |
| Word after carpenter or fire | 28 |
| White ___ (termite) | 19 |
| Wee soldier | 11 |
| Wee colonial | 12 |
| Warlike insect, at times | 24 |
| Vermicide : worm :: formicide : ___ | 35 |
| Unwelcome kitchen sight | 23 |
| Unwelcome kitchen guest | 23 |
| Unwanted pantry guest | 21 |
| Unwanted kitchen visitor | 24 |
| Unpleasant sight in the kitchen | 31 |
| Uninvited picnic attendee | 25 |
| Uninvited house guest? | 22 |
| Uninvited cookout guest? | 24 |
| Ubiquitous bug | 14 |
| Tunnel dweller | 14 |
| Tunnel denizen | 14 |
| Toiler on a hill | 16 |
| Tiny six-footer? | 16 |
| Tiny picnic crasher | 19 |
| Tiny member of a colony | 23 |
| Tiny hill crawler | 17 |
| Tiny forager | 12 |
| Tiny colony crawler | 19 |
| Tiny burrower | 13 |
| Tidbit for the formicivorous | 28 |
| Tidbit for an aardvark | 22 |
| They Might Be Giants song about a bug? | 38 |
| Termite's relative | 22 |
| Termite's kin | 17 |
| Teensy kitchen invader | 22 |
| Tachyglossal treat | 18 |
| Syn.'s opp. | 15 |
| Syn.'s kin | 14 |
| Symbol of diligence | 19 |
| Sugar lover | 11 |
| Suffix with claim or cool | 25 |
| Strong insect | 13 |
| Source of the eggs served in escamole | 37 |
| Source of formic acid | 21 |
| Some are carpenters? | 20 |
| Solomon wrote of it "Consider its ways" | 49 |
| Soldier, for one | 16 |
| Soldier, e.g. | 13 |
| Soldier or slave | 16 |
| Soldier or carpenter | 20 |
| Soldier in the field | 20 |
| Soldier in a colony | 19 |
| Social sort | 11 |
| Social group member | 19 |
| Social creature | 15 |
| Social climber? | 15 |
| Sociable insect | 15 |
| Small crawler | 13 |
| Sluggard's model | 20 |
| Sluggard's exemplar | 23 |
| Six-legged pest | 15 |
| Six-legged colony member | 24 |
| Six-foot worker? | 16 |
| Six-foot worker, maybe | 22 |
| Six-foot creature? | 18 |
| Sidewalk-crack dweller | 22 |
| Sedulous colonist | 17 |
| Scurrier | 8 |
| Scout on the floor, perhaps | 27 |
| Rubber tree plant mover of song | 31 |
| Rubber tree plant mover in "High Hopes" | 49 |
| Rubber tree mover? | 18 |