1) Advances like ivy 2) Advances slowly 3) Animal disease 4) Canadian young adult novel 5) Crawls 6) Feeling of apprehension 7) Goes slowly 8) Heebie-jeebies 9) Horrors 10) Icky people 11) Inches 12) Inches along 13) Kin of nerds 14) Losers 15) Low characters 16) Lowlifes 17) Lowlifes, to the beave Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/creeps
a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/creeps