| Crawl at a snail's pace | 27 |
| About 1/39,000 of a kilometer | 29 |
| Yardstick fraction | 18 |
| Worm's measure? | 19 |
| Worm type | 9 |
| Word derived from the Latin "uncia," meaning "one-twelfth" | 78 |
| Word before "worm" | 28 |
| What a big tick on a ruler indicates | 36 |
| Waistline unit | 14 |
| Unit indicated by " | 24 |
| Twelfth part | 12 |
| Take tiny steps | 15 |
| Stubborn people won't give one | 34 |
| Span fraction | 13 |
| Snail's pace | 16 |
| Small unit of measure | 21 |
| Ruling division? | 16 |
| Ruler segment | 13 |
| Ruler fraction | 14 |
| Robert Palmer: "Give Me An ___" | 41 |
| Rainfall measurement unit | 25 |
| Progress very slowly | 20 |
| Part of a foot? | 15 |
| One of a foot's 12 | 22 |
| Offer to one who takes a mile? | 30 |
| Move in baby steps | 18 |
| Move by small degrees | 21 |
| Move at a worm's pace? | 26 |
| Move a little at a time | 23 |
| Minimal distance | 16 |
| Meal or worm | 12 |
| Mark on a ruler | 15 |
| Mark of a ruler? | 16 |
| Length of three barleycorns | 27 |
| Kind of worm? | 13 |
| Inseam unit | 11 |
| Go like a snail | 15 |
| Go forward, in a way | 20 |
| Go ever so slowly | 17 |
| Foot section | 12 |
| Dieter's loss, maybe | 24 |
| Creep ahead | 11 |
| Creep (up) | 10 |
| Centimeter's predecessor | 28 |
| About 25.4 mm | 13 |
| About 2.54 centimeters | 22 |
| A diehard may not give one | 26 |
| 1/12 of a ruler | 15 |
| ' : Foot :: " : ___ | 28 |
| Furlong's 7,920 | 19 |
| Dieter's statistic | 22 |
| 4th and ___ | 11 |
| Yard's 36 | 13 |
| What some races are won by | 26 |
| Some dieters' concerns | 26 |
| Ruling units | 12 |
| Ruling divisions | 16 |
| Rulers have them | 16 |
| Rulers contain them | 19 |
| Ruler divisions | 15 |
| Rainfall units | 14 |
| Precipitation prediction | 24 |
| Moves at a snail's pace | 27 |
| Many rulers have 12 | 19 |
| Losses monitored when on a diet | 31 |
| Foot fractions | 14 |
| Creeps along | 12 |
| Advances slowly | 15 |
| Approaching slowly | 18 |
| Amorphous | 9 |
| Not fully developed | 19 |
| Unorganized | 11 |
| Not completely formed | 21 |
| Nascent | 7 |
| Lacking order | 13 |
| They crawl in the dirt | 22 |
| Certain caterpillars | 20 |
| Small hairless caterpillars | 27 |
| Larvae of the geometer moth | 27 |
| Geometrid caterpillars | 22 |
| Strings, perhaps, in a romance film | 35 |
| Soundtrack segments | 19 |
| Grieg's "Peer Gynt," e.g. | 39 |
| Heady quip (Part 3) | 19 |
| Cut with a scalpel | 18 |
| Make cuts on | 12 |
| Make cuts in | 12 |
| Like some gems | 14 |
| Did some engraving | 18 |
| Cut, as a surgeon | 17 |
| Cut marks on | 12 |
| Uses a scalpel | 14 |
| Impressively direct | 19 |
| Clear and direct, as reporting | 30 |
| Canine neighbor | 15 |
| Tooth next to a canine | 22 |
| Denture part | 12 |
| Cutting tooth | 13 |
| Cuspid neighbor | 15 |
| Certain anterior | 16 |