| Red or fire | 11 |
| Red or black insect | 19 |
| Red or black creature | 21 |
| Red or army | 11 |
| Queen's subject, possibly | 29 |
| Queen's servant, maybe | 26 |
| Queen of the hill | 17 |
| Prefix for arctic or eater | 26 |
| Prefix for arctic | 17 |
| Pixar's Flik or Princess Atta | 33 |
| Picnic-goer | 11 |
| Picnic undesirable | 18 |
| Picnic troublemaker | 19 |
| Picnic schnorrer | 16 |
| Picnic predator | 15 |
| Picnic plague | 13 |
| Picnic party pooper | 19 |
| Picnic nuisance | 15 |
| Picnic interloper | 17 |
| Picnic disrupter | 16 |
| Picnic crawler | 14 |
| Picnic bug | 10 |
| Picnic attendee | 15 |
| Pharaoh, e.g. | 13 |
| Pest with ''high hopes'' | 40 |
| Pesky pismire | 13 |
| Pesky picnic problem | 20 |
| Paragon of collectivity | 23 |
| Pantry raid participant | 23 |
| Pantry intruder, perhaps | 24 |
| Pantry intruder | 15 |
| Pantry crawler | 14 |
| Pantry concern | 14 |
| Pantry bug | 10 |
| Pangolin's morsel | 21 |
| Opposite of a syn. | 18 |
| Opp. of syn. | 12 |
| One with a small nest egg? | 26 |
| One to emulate in an Aesop fable | 32 |
| One putting out feelers? | 24 |
| One putting out feelers | 23 |
| One often on the march | 22 |
| One of an estimated quadrillion on Earth | 40 |
| One of a quadrillion on Earth | 29 |
| One of "Them!" things | 31 |
| One might march to a DMB concert | 32 |
| One marching in a column | 24 |
| One little insect ... | 21 |
| One in a long line of workers? | 30 |
| One in a caste system | 21 |
| Numbat's tidbit | 19 |
| Numbat's morsel | 19 |
| Noted series of paintings by Andrew Wyeth | 41 |
| Myrmicid | 8 |
| Myrmecophobe's fear | 23 |
| Myrmecologist's specimen | 28 |
| Myopic, workaholic crawler | 26 |
| Mound builder | 13 |
| Morsel for an echidna | 21 |
| Minute marcher? | 15 |
| Miniature colonist | 18 |
| Micraner, e.g. | 14 |
| Member of the family Formicidae | 31 |
| Member of an army? | 18 |
| Member of a tiny colony | 23 |
| Member of a farm team? | 22 |
| Member of a farm system? | 24 |
| Member of a caste system | 24 |
| Marching creature | 17 |
| Marcher in a column | 19 |
| Many a nameless "B.C." character | 42 |
| Lover of sweets | 15 |
| Lizard's snack | 18 |
| Lizard's nibble | 19 |
| Little red soldier | 18 |
| Little pantry pest | 18 |
| Little farm resident | 20 |
| Leaf-cutting little colonist | 28 |
| Leaf cutter, e.g. | 17 |
| Lead bug in "A Bug's Life" | 40 |
| Kitchen-invading insect | 23 |
| Kitchen crawler | 15 |
| Kind of hill or lion | 20 |
| Kelep, for one | 14 |
| Kelep or emmet | 14 |
| It may be red or black | 22 |
| It may be part of a tiny farm | 29 |
| It can lift nearly 50 times its weight | 38 |
| Intruder in the dust | 20 |
| Insignificant person, metaphorically | 36 |
| Insect with a queen | 19 |
| Insect sung about in "High Hopes" | 43 |
| Insect not found in Antarctica | 30 |
| Insect in one's pants? | 26 |
| Insect in "High Hopes" | 32 |
| Insect having castes | 20 |
| Insect going after combat | 25 |
| Insect a doodlebug loves | 24 |
| Inhabitant of a formicary | 25 |
| Industrious worker | 18 |