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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 19A | Toiler on a hill | Paula Gamache |
| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 51A | Atom ___, 1960s cartoon superhero | Richard Silvestri |
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 | 29A | Farm worker | Todd McClary |
| Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 4D | Queen's servant, maybe | Patrick Berry |
| Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 104A | Tiny tunneler | Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan |
| Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | 6D | Amazon ___ (aggressive insect) | Tony Orbach |
| Monday, July 13, 2009 | 65A | Tidbit for an aardvark | C. W. Stewart |
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 | 22A | Caste member | David J. Kahn |
| Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 62D | Tiny colonist | Wayne and P. K. King |
| Thursday, May 07, 2009 | 6D | Hill denizen | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 59D | Colony member | Mark Diehl |
| Friday, January 02, 2009 | 44A | Social group member | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 | 31D | Pantry invader | Stanley Newman |
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 65A | Pantry raider | Allan E. Parrish |
| Monday, August 11, 2008 | 43D | Termite look-alike | Thomas Heilman |
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 | 69D | About which the Bible says "Consider her ways, and be wise" | Peter A. Collins and Joe Krozel |
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 | 42D | Social worker | Matt Ginsberg |
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 16A | Hobby farm occupant | Rob Cook |
| Friday, June 20, 2008 | 37A | Farm unit? | Mike Nothnagel |
| Monday, June 16, 2008 | 29D | Six-legged worker | Ronald J. and Nancy J. Byron |
| Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 107D | Amazon ___ | Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | 29D | Industrious insect | Nancy Salomon |
| Wednesday, April 02, 2008 | 7D | Figure on a hill | Patrick Merrell |
| Sunday, December 23, 2007 | 92A | Certain soldier | Adam G. Perl |
| Thursday, November 22, 2007 | 52A | Hill creator | Oliver Hill |
| Sunday, November 18, 2007 | 55A | Crumb carrier | Patrick Berry |
| Tuesday, October 02, 2007 | 9D | Queen of the hill? | Oliver Hill |
| Saturday, September 15, 2007 | 52D | Symbol of industry | Brad Wilber |
| Sunday, July 08, 2007 | 28D | Tiny tunneler | Elayne Cantor and Nancy Salomon |
| Saturday, June 23, 2007 | 44A | Vermicide : worm :: formicide : ___ | Patrick Berry |
| Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 33A | One putting out feelers? | Bruce Venzke and Stella Daily |
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | 27A | Tiny hill dweller | Jennifer Nutt |
| Tuesday, January 02, 2007 | 20A | "The Atom ___ Show" (1960's TV cartoon) | Sarah Keller |
| Tuesday, December 26, 2006 | 43A | Aardvark's morsel | C. W. Stewart |
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 | 58A | Harvester ___ | Harvey Estes |
| Sunday, October 08, 2006 | 33A | Myrmecologist's interest | Fred Piscop |
| Wednesday, September 20, 2006 | 61D | Colony member | Joe DiPietro |
| Sunday, July 16, 2006 | 41D | Industrious one | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | 42A | Echidna morsel | Lisa Wiseman |
| Monday, June 05, 2006 | 25D | Aardvark's morsel | Fred Piscop |
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 | 22D | Fire ___ | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, February 27, 2006 | 7D | Opposite of syn. | Ed Early |
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 | 38A | Social sort | Manny Nosowsky |
| Saturday, February 11, 2006 | 25D | Word with white, red or black | David Quarfoot |
| Monday, December 12, 2005 | 8D | Picnic intruder | Allan E. Parrish |
| Tuesday, October 25, 2005 | 23A | Mound dweller | Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette |
| Thursday, September 22, 2005 | 33D | Army member | Patrick Merrell |
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 | 53D | Antenna holder | Mark Feldman |
| Sunday, June 05, 2005 | 73D | Boric acid target | Patrick Merrell |
| Sunday, April 17, 2005 | 73A | Nest builder | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, March 20, 2005 | 20D | Certain soldier | Patrick Berry |
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 | 67A | Creature with a tiny waist | Holden Baker |
| Thursday, December 30, 2004 | 3D | Household pest with a fiery appearance | Kyle Mahowald |
| Monday, December 27, 2004 | 37A | Tiny hill builder | Levi Denham |
| Thursday, November 25, 2004 | 60D | Certain colonist | Nancy Salomon and Earl W. Reed |
| Sunday, November 07, 2004 | 10D | Nest builder | Con Pederson |
| Monday, September 27, 2004 | 36A | Ubiquitous bug | Gregory Paul |
| Thursday, August 26, 2004 | 12D | Six-footer | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| Wednesday, August 04, 2004 | 40A | Burrowing insect | Raymond Hamel |
| Saturday, July 24, 2004 | 8D | Dove's helper, in an Aesop tale | Dana Motley |
| Thursday, July 22, 2004 | 51A | Small colonist | Greg Staples |
| Saturday, June 26, 2004 | 36A | Boric acid target | Byron Walden |
| Thursday, May 06, 2004 | 9D | Hill dweller | Kevan Choset |
| Thursday, March 25, 2004 | 57D | Fire ___ | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O'Donnell |
| Friday, December 05, 2003 | 58D | Fire ___ | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Sunday, November 30, 2003 | 107D | Six-footer? | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, November 24, 2003 | 49A | Industrious insect | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Thursday, September 25, 2003 | 32A | Formicary resident | Patrick Merrell |
| Wednesday, August 27, 2003 | 64A | Hill dweller | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, August 07, 2003 | 21A | Harvester ___ | Patrick Berry |
| Wednesday, July 02, 2003 | 34D | Lizard's nibble | Barbara Olson |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2003 | 36A | Mound builder | Susan Harrington Smith |
| Sunday, May 18, 2003 | 18D | Tunneler | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 | 23A | Kitchen pest | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Monday, April 07, 2003 | 24A | Tiny toiler | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Friday, February 28, 2003 | 30D | Social worker | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, February 13, 2003 | 28D | Symbol of industry | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 40A | Picnic crasher | Christina Houlihan |
| Friday, January 24, 2003 | 57D | Social worker? | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, October 10, 2002 | 38A | Colony member | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, October 07, 2002 | 47A | Symbol of industriousness | Greg Staples |
| Saturday, September 28, 2002 | 10D | Solomon wrote of it "Consider its ways" | Raymond Hamel |
| Tuesday, September 03, 2002 | 60A | See 2-Down | Don West |
| Saturday, August 24, 2002 | 30A | Member of a farm team? | Chuck Menning |
| Monday, August 19, 2002 | 26A | Colony member | Lynn Lempel |
| Thursday, August 01, 2002 | 42A | Army unit? | William I. Johnston |
| Sunday, July 14, 2002 | 102D | Underground worker | Patrick Berry |
| Sunday, June 09, 2002 | 67A | Antenna holder | Randolph Ross |
| Sunday, May 05, 2002 | 105A | Word with white or worker | Patrick Berry |
| Sunday, April 14, 2002 | 51D | Hill climber, of sorts | David J. Kahn |
| Sunday, March 17, 2002 | 28A | Carpenter ___ | David J. Kahn |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2002 | 39D | Queen's subject, possibly | Sarah Keller |
| Sunday, January 13, 2002 | 24D | Army member | Nelson Hardy |
| Tuesday, November 06, 2001 | 4D | Colony crawler | Denise Neuendorf |
| Sunday, September 09, 2001 | 48A | Red army member | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Sunday, September 02, 2001 | 97A | Social worker? | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, August 13, 2001 | 35A | Termite's relative | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Wednesday, July 25, 2001 | 68A | Aphid milker | Richard Hughes |
| Sunday, July 22, 2001 | 24D | Grasshopper's teacher, in Aesop | Patrick Berry |
| Monday, June 18, 2001 | 24A | Tiny member of a colony | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Sunday, June 10, 2001 | 6D | "A Bug's Life" bug | Cathy Millhauser |
| Monday, June 04, 2001 | 43A | Aardvark morsel | Patrick Jordan |
| Saturday, April 14, 2001 | 36D | Hill dweller | Rich Norris |
| Sunday, March 18, 2001 | 116A | Fire ___ | Richard Silvestri |
| Wednesday, February 28, 2001 | 27A | Queen, maybe | A. J. Santora |
| Friday, January 26, 2001 | 30D | Symbol of industry | Joe DiPietro |
| Monday, January 22, 2001 | 13D | Pantry raider | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Friday, January 12, 2001 | 65D | Honeydew eater | Mark Diehl |
| Friday, December 22, 2000 | 20A | Antenna holder | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Monday, November 06, 2000 | 5D | Small colonist | Nancy Salomon and Bob Frank |
| Tuesday, October 17, 2000 | 46A | One marching in a column | Peter Gordon |
| Tuesday, August 29, 2000 | 44A | Insect in a colony | Peter Gordon |
| Sunday, July 23, 2000 | 39D | Food for a doodlebug | Patrick Berry |
| Thursday, July 20, 2000 | 20A | Certain colonist | Bonnie S. Prystowsky |
| Thursday, July 06, 2000 | 44A | Word with red or army | Patrick Berry |
| Tuesday, May 16, 2000 | 11D | Little scurrier | Peter Gordon |
| Monday, March 20, 2000 | 13D | Aardvark's tidbit | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, March 02, 2000 | 50A | Tiny forager | Frances Hansen |
| Sunday, January 16, 2000 | 82A | Tidbit for an echidna | Fred Piscop |
| Saturday, January 15, 2000 | 19A | Member of a farm system? | Matt Gaffney |
| Friday, January 14, 2000 | 18A | Red army member | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Friday, December 31, 1999 | 39D | White ___ | Peter Gordon |
| Sunday, December 26, 1999 | 42D | Army member | Greg Staples |
| Friday, December 17, 1999 | 35D | Six-foot worker, maybe | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, October 17, 1999 | 159D | Hill dweller | Bob and Sharon Klahn |
| Thursday, September 23, 1999 | 28A | Thesaurus abbr. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Wednesday, July 28, 1999 | 47A | Offspring of a queen | Manny Nosowsky |
| Saturday, June 19, 1999 | 47D | Army member | Mark Diehl |
| Thursday, May 20, 1999 | 11D | Tunnel builder | Zack Butler |
| Sunday, May 16, 1999 | 59A | Hymenopteran | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Thursday, May 06, 1999 | 24A | Hill worker | Matt Gaffney |
| Friday, April 16, 1999 | 17A | It may be red or black | John Wolting |
| Monday, March 01, 1999 | 13D | Hill resident | Ed Early |
| Saturday, February 27, 1999 | 34A | Farm animal | John Scott Marrone |
| Wednesday, February 10, 1999 | 9D | Picnic crasher | Nancy Salomon |
| Sunday, January 10, 1999 | 10D | Farm worker | David J. Kahn |
| Saturday, October 31, 1998 | 9D | Flicker food | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, October 13, 1998 | 67A | Little scurrier | Nancy Salomon |
| Sunday, September 20, 1998 | 53A | Worker ___ | Charles Deber |
| Tuesday, September 15, 1998 | 33A | Little worker | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| Sunday, June 28, 1998 | 43A | Pantry pest | Fred Piscop |
| Sunday, June 14, 1998 | 120D | Many a worker | Manny Nosowsky |
| Tuesday, May 12, 1998 | 36D | Farm worker? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Thursday, May 07, 1998 | 39D | Small colonist | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| Friday, May 01, 1998 | 19D | Queen of the hill | John Wolting |
| Tuesday, March 10, 1998 | 30D | Cupboard crawler | Patrick Jordan |
| Sunday, February 08, 1998 | 41A | Hill climber | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, December 29, 1997 | 30A | Aardvark's nibble | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, December 07, 1997 | 59A | Farm creature | Randolph Ross |
| Tuesday, December 02, 1997 | 42D | Tiny worker | Alan Olschwang |
| Thursday, November 27, 1997 | 19A | Colony member | Kiran S. Kedlaya |
| Monday, October 27, 1997 | 23A | Aardvark's tidbit | Mark Gottlieb |
| Friday, October 10, 1997 | 60D | Army member | Shannon Burns |
| Tuesday, August 26, 1997 | 10D | Hard-working insect | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Sunday, July 20, 1997 | 83A | Farm resident | Rich Norris |
| Thursday, July 10, 1997 | 59D | Colony member | Matt Gaffney |
| Wednesday, June 25, 1997 | 6D | Member of a colony | Elizabeth Gorski |
| Saturday, June 14, 1997 | 29A | Red ___ | A. J. Santora |
| Friday, April 25, 1997 | 60D | Tiny toiler | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Sunday, March 16, 1997 | 53D | Amazon, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| Sunday, March 09, 1997 | 59D | Tunnel traveler | June Boggs |
| Wednesday, February 26, 1997 | 23A | Hill dweller | Glenn E. Sykes |
| Tuesday, January 07, 1997 | 20A | One of "Them!" things | J. Schmalzbach |
| Sunday, December 22, 1996 | 109D | Sugar lover | F. Hansen |
| Sunday, September 01, 1996 | 83A | Social worker? | D. J. Kahn |
| Saturday, August 31, 1996 | 10D | Army member | G. Petgrave |
| Sunday, August 18, 1996 | 67A | Colonist | F. and L. Sabin |
| Thursday, July 25, 1996 | 29D | Rock's Adam | A. J. Santora |
| Wednesday, June 26, 1996 | 49A | Hill builder | P. Jordan |
| Sunday, April 21, 1996 | 101A | Scurrier | M. Gaffney |
| Tuesday, March 19, 1996 | 50A | Aardvark's treat | P. Jordan |
| Friday, March 15, 1996 | 33D | Symbol of industry | A. J. Santora |
| Sunday, March 03, 1996 | 35A | Social worker | B. Klahn |
| Sunday, February 18, 1996 | 109D | Certain soldier | Norma Steinberg |
| Monday, January 22, 1996 | 29D | Picnic ruiner | E. Gorski |
| Sunday, November 12, 1995 | 4D | Hill builder | Randolph Ross |
| Wednesday, August 23, 1995 | 40A | Picnic interloper | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| Monday, July 31, 1995 | 8D | Industrious worker | Elizabeth Gorski |
| Sunday, July 30, 1995 | 110D | Model Aesop character | Charles M. Deber |
| Tuesday, June 20, 1995 | 33A | Picnic pest | Jon Delfin |
| Tuesday, June 06, 1995 | 23A | Lover of sweets | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Wednesday, April 12, 1995 | 31D | Pismire | Rich Norris |
| Tuesday, April 11, 1995 | 20A | Myrmecologist's subject | Gregory E. Paul |
| Thursday, March 30, 1995 | 9D | Worker _____ | Rich Norris |
| Monday, March 06, 1995 | 63D | Colony pest | Randall J. Hartman |
| Sunday, February 12, 1995 | 40D | Hill dweller | Alex & Victoria Black |
| Sunday, January 01, 1995 | 84A | Army _____ | Henry Hook |
| Thursday, December 29, 1994 | 9D | Army crawler | Jim Page |
| Thursday, December 22, 1994 | 9D | Farm critter | Stanley Newman |
| Tuesday, November 01, 1994 | 9D | Aardvark morsel | Christopher Page |
| Wednesday, October 26, 1994 | 35A | Scurrier | Rich Norris |
| Sunday, October 09, 1994 | 38A | Kind of farm | Bryant White |
| Sunday, August 14, 1994 | 94D | Colony member | Deborah Kathryn Trombley |
| Saturday, July 16, 1994 | 32D | Tidbit for the formicivorous | Mark Diehl |
| Monday, May 23, 1994 | 39D | Grasshopper's rebuker | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| Sunday, May 22, 1994 | 62A | Formicary inhabitant | Randolph Ross |
| Thursday, February 03, 1994 | 51A | Kind of hill or lion | A.J. Santora |
| Sunday, December 26, 1993 | 29A | Aardvark snack | Tom Underhill |