BUGGY RIDE
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick   (#1-4)

[The answers to the clues below will contain the name of an insect.] 

1. Go straight toward something
2. Make a mountain out of a molehill
3. Cousin of a swap-meet
4. Unsportsmanlike
5. Unnoticed observer
6. Utah nickname
7. Football play
8. Hapless comic strip soldier
9. Disreputable, not trustworthy, as a business
10. High school contest
11. Classic children's toy from Uncle Milton
12. Blank page at the beginning of a book

Answers:

1. Make a beeline for
2. Strain at a gnat
3. Flea market
4. Not cricket
5. Fly on the wall
6. Beehive State
7. Flea-flicker pass
8. Beetle Bailey
9. Fly-by-night
10. Spelling bee
11. Ant Farm
12. Flyleaf