| BEES | "Busy" insects |
| BEES | "Busy" ones |
| BEES | "It's the ___ knees!" ("Great stuff!") |
| BEES | "Subjects" of a queen, not a king |
| BEES | "The Secret Life of ___" (Sue Monk Kidd novel) |
| BEES | "The Secret Life of ___," 2001 Sue Monk Kidd novel that was adapted into a 2008 film starring Queen Latifah |
| BEES | "The Secret Life of ___," 2008 drama film starring Alicia Keys that features her song "Doncha Know (Sky Is Blue)" |
| BEES | "Ulee's Gold" insects |
| BEES | (5/6) "And still more, later flowers for the ___, until they think warm days will never cease" |
| BEES | 14-Across residents |
| BEES | Apiary residents |
| BEES | Apiphobe's bane |
| BEES | Apiphobe's phobia |
| BEES | Backyard stingers |
| BEES | Big business leaders |
| BEES | Birds' partner, in phrase |
| BEES | Black-and-yellow stingers |
| BEES | Bugs in a hive |
| BEES | Burt's ___ ("By nature. For nature. For all" personal care brand) |
| BEES | Burt's ___ ("True to Nature" personal care brand) |
| BEES | Busy buzzers |
| BEES | Busy buzzers ... and letters found at the start of every clue in this puzzle |
| BEES | Busy flying insects |
| BEES | Busy, buzzing insects |
| BEES | Buzzers |
| BEES | Buzzers around blossoms |
| BEES | Buzzers on blossoms |
| BEES | Buzzers that fly |
| BEES | Buzzing hive dwellers |
| BEES | Buzzing honey makers |
| BEES | Buzzing insects |
| BEES | Buzzing insects that can sting |
| BEES | Buzzing pollinators |
| BEES | Buzzy insects |
| BEES | Cellmates? |
| BEES | Certain insects |
| BEES | Colony figures |
| BEES | Colony members |
| BEES | Comb builders |
| BEES | Competitions |
| BEES | Contents of an apiary |
| BEES | Crucial pollinators |
| BEES | Declining population in headlines |
| BEES | Domesticated insects |
| BEES | Domesticated swarm |
| BEES | Drones or workers |
| BEES | Drones, e.g. |
| BEES | Epitomes of busyness |
| BEES | Euphemism used when having "The Talk" |
| BEES | Fear of these insects is known as "apiphobia" |
| BEES | Fliers with combs |
| BEES | Fliers with stingers |
| BEES | Flower fanciers |
| BEES | Flower pollinators |
| BEES | Flower visitors |
| BEES | Flower-loving buzzers |
| BEES | Flying bugs |
| BEES | Flying insects |
| BEES | Flying insects often thought to be busy |
| BEES | Focus of Apiology which featured in the film "Jupiter Ascending" |
| BEES | Fuzzy buzzers |
| BEES | Fuzzy pollinators |
| BEES | Good marks |
| BEES | Half a sex-ed metaphor, with "the" |
| BEES | Health food store brand, Burt's ___ |
| BEES | Hive buzzers |
| BEES | Hive denizens |
| BEES | Hive dwellers |
| BEES | Hive group |
| BEES | Hive insects |
| BEES | Hive members |
| BEES | Hive occupants |
| BEES | Hive residents |
| BEES | Hive swarm |
| BEES | Hive workers |
| BEES | Hoeny-producing insects |
| BEES | Honey bunch |
| BEES | Honey bunch? |
| BEES | Honey bunches? |
| BEES | Honey handlers |
| BEES | Honey makers |
| BEES | Honey makers? |
| BEES | Honey making insects |
| BEES | Honey producers |
| BEES | Honeybunch? |
| BEES | Honeycomb makers |
| BEES | Honey-loving insects |
| BEES | Honey-makers? |
| BEES | Honey-making insects |
| BEES | Honey-producing insects |
| BEES | Humbugs? |
| BEES | Hymenopterous insects |
| BEES | Insects |
| BEES | Insects are characters, we hear |
| BEES | Insects famous for making honey |
| BEES | Insects in a hive |
| BEES | Insects maintained by an apiarist |
| BEES | Insects that build honeycombs |
| BEES | Insects that can sting |
| BEES | Insects that make honey |
| BEES | Insects that pollinate flowers |
| BEES | Insects that pollinate many flowers |
| BEES | Insects that sting |
| BEES | Insects with "secret lives," per a Sue Monk Kidd title |
| BEES | Insects with stingers |
| BEES | Killer _____ |
| BEES | Learn about the birds and the ___ |
| BEES | Makers of fine combs |
| BEES | Melittologist's study |
| BEES | Members of the genus Apis |
| BEES | Mockingbird prey |
| BEES | Nectar collectors |
| BEES | Nectar lovers |
| BEES | Nectar seekers |
| BEES | Not big buzzers |
| BEES | Occupants of hive |
| BEES | On a spring night, you may hear the buzzing from these honey-making insects |
| BEES | Ones with a hive mentality? |
| BEES | Ones with combs |
| BEES | Orchard pollinators |
| BEES | Parts of a business idea on Arrested Development that Gob says will "bring in honey" |
| BEES | Picnic pests |
| BEES | Plant kingdom/animal kingdom connectors |
| BEES | Pollen eaters |
| BEES | Pollen gatherers |
| BEES | Pollen robbers |
| BEES | Pollen spreaders |
| BEES | Pollinators |
| BEES | Pollinators that can see in the ultraviolet spectrum |
| BEES | Producers of some storage cells |
| BEES | Proverbially busy flyers |
| BEES | Queen __ |
| BEES | Queen's subjects |
| BEES | Queens & drones |
| BEES | Queens and drones |
| BEES | Queens, drones & workers |
| BEES | Quilters' parties |
| BEES | Quilting events |
| BEES | Quilting parties |
| BEES | Quilting sessions |
| BEES | Report characters as insects |
| BEES | Residents of a hive |
| BEES | Sex education subject? |
| BEES | Small drones |
| BEES | Social affairs |
| BEES | Some contests |
| BEES | Some domesticated insects |
| BEES | Some drones |
| BEES | Some parties |
| BEES | Some queens |
| BEES | Some queens but not kings |
| BEES | Some socials |
| BEES | Spelling competitions |
| BEES | Spelling contests |
| BEES | Spell-offs |
| BEES | Stingers |
| BEES | Stinging insects |
| BEES | Stinging insects that gather pollen |
| BEES | Swarm members |
| BEES | Swarming insects |
| BEES | The ___ knees |
| BEES | The ___ knees (the cat's meow) |
| BEES | The birds and the ___ |
| BEES | Theme of this puzzle |
| BEES | They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology |
| BEES | They generate a lot of buzz |
| BEES | They generate buzz |
| BEES | They might break out in hives |
| BEES | They work in cells |
| BEES | They’re buzzy and busy |
| BEES | Vocabulary insects? |
| BEES | Waggle dance performers |
| BEES | Wax figures? |
| BEES | Wax makers |
| BEES | Wax producers |
| BEES | What apiphobes fear |
| BEES | Winged collectors |
| BEES | With 22-Across, something neat, with "the" |
| BEES | Word that can follow "honey" and "bumble" |
| BEES | Workers in an orchard |
| BEES | Workers in gardens |
| BEES | ___ Knees, slang popular in the 1920s |
| BEES | ___ Knees, slang that you will hear while in the 1920s |
| BEES | *Hive insects |