- BEES
- Those doing a waggle dance
- Queen's servants
- Insects that can spell?
- Nectar collectors
- Cell builders
- Quilting klatsches
- Spelling events
- Swarming insects
- Cellblock workers?
- Swarm around a hive
- Birds' companions
- Quilters' gatherings
- Birds' partners
- Honeycomb makers
- Sting operators?
- The ___ knees (great)
- Drones, for example
- Honey producers
- Spelling contests
- Some drones
- Birds' partners, in sex ed
- Pollen spreaders
- Creators of Ulee's gold
- Quilting parties
- Some gatherings
- Melissophobe's fear
- Stingy bunch?
- Sue Monk Kidd's insects with a "secret life"
- Insects with "secret lives," per a Sue Monk Kidd title
- Some contests
- Stinging insects
- Hive dwellers
- Comb builders
- Workers all abuzz
- Candyman swarmers
- Apiary denizens
- Busy bodies
- Quilting and spelling
- Good grades
- Good marks
- Hive denizens
- Stingers
- Apiary residents
- Contests
- Queen's subjects
- 17-Across's charge
- Industrious fliers
- Work parties
- Buzzing swarmers
- Queen's offspring
- Source of Ulee's gold
- Apiphobe's fear
- With 131-Across, greatest thing
- Flower-loving buzzers
- Some school competitions
- Swarming stingers
- Waggle-dancing insects
- Apiary dwellers
- Hive insects
- 37-Down's concerns
- Buzzers around blossoms
- Certain contests
- Honey makers
- Fliers with stingers
- Winged collectors
- Drones, e.g.
- Fliers with combs
- Half a sex-ed metaphor, with "the"
- Apiphobe's phobia
- Quilting events
- They work in cells
- Orchard pollinators
- Crucial pollinators
- Carpenters and masons
- The __ knees
- Drones and queens
- Hive residents
- What hives house
- With 102 Down, marvelous person
- Pollen distributors
- Honey handlers
- They make Pooh's favorite food
- Flying buzzers
- Quilters' parties
- Spelling competitions
- Wax producers
- Hummers at home in hives
- Some competitions
- Symbols of industry
- Some buzzers
- Buzzing bunch
- Swarm members
- Domesticated insects
- Plant kingdom/animal kingdom connectors
- Queen __
- Small drones
- Waggle dance performers
- Small buzzers
- Garden buzzers
- Some social workers
- Gold producers in "Ulee's Gold"
- Apiarist's specialty.
- Fabre's subject.
- Social gatherings.
- Gatherings for work, contests, etc.
- Symbols of busyness.
- Neighborly meetings.
- What apiculturists tend.
- Drones.
- Insects.
- Flowers' companions.
- Neighborly gatherings.
- Four-winged insects.
- Contests of a sort.
- Décor for bonnets.
- Kin of 50 Across.
- Busy ones.
- Companion of the flowers.
- Pollinators.
- Get-togethers, country style.
- Apiarist's concern.
- Queen ___.
- Purposive get-togethers.
- Workers or drones.
- Certain socials.
- Gatherings
- Gatherings of sorts.
- Parties.
- Busy creatures
- Colonizer
- School contests
- Friendly contests
- Socials
- ___ knees
- Apiary inmates
- Honey harvesters
- Karbis
- Topic for Maeterlinck
- Work sessions
- Kind of wax
- Bonnet denizens
- Bonnet occupants
- Apiarist's assets
- Humbugs?
- Followers of birds?
- Bonnet residents
- Nectar noshers
- Some involve spelling
- Killer _____
- Sex education subject?
- Some parties
- Competitions
- Flower fanciers
- 14-Across residents
- Epitomes of busyness
- Wax makers
- Ones with combs
- 5338
- Theme of this puzzle
- Producers of some storage cells
- Some socials
- Apiphobe's bane
- Mockingbird prey
- Colony members
- Subjects of a queen, not a king
- Honey bunches?
- They might break out in hives
- Makers of fine combs
- What apiphobes fear
- Contents of an apiary
- Contests in which the competitors are eliminated one by one
- Pollen gatherers
- Spell-offs
- Members of the genus Apis
- Some queens but not kings
- Wax figures?
- Buzzing swarm
- They sting
- Comb users
- Birds do it, ___ do it, even educated fleas do it
- Alanis Morissette "Knees of My ___"
- Jewel Akens: "The Birds and the ___"
- What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the ___? Or the dogs with ___ in their mouth and when they bark they shoot ___ at you?: Homer Simpson
- Quilting sessions
- They're buzzy and busy
- Declining population in headlines
- Some are killer
- The _____ knees
- The _____ knees (the cat's meow)
- Sting operation?
- They have a queen but no king
- Spelling contests with buzzers?
- Hairy-bodied insects
- Nectar harvesters
- Partner of birds
- Events for spellers
- Hive population
- Waggle dance insects
- They can make quite a buzz
- Apiary creatures
- Buzz makers
- Pollinating insects
- Sting-y pollinators?
- Makers of food in wax
- Rose garden insects
- Rose pollinators
- Flower pollinators
- Apiary insects
- The birds and the ___
- Pollen foragers
- Drones, perhaps
- Hive builders
- Buzzing insects
- Apian creatures
- Companions of birds
- Hymenoptera
- Hymenopterans
- Spelling and quilting
- They love their queen
- Many are drones
- Queen's followers
- Busy insects
- Waggle dancers
- Ulee's Gold insects
- Buzzers on blossoms
- Domesticated swarm
- Drones or workers
- Queens and drones
- Honey-making insects
- The ___ knees
- Buzzing pollinators
- The ___ knees (the cat's meow)
- Insects that attack Nicolas Cage in "The Wicker Man"
- Colony workers
- Workers among the flowers
- See 67-Across
- They may lead to hives
- Workers in gardens
- Wax workers
- Workers in the garden
- They generate buzz
- Workers in an orchard
- Roots for the chef
- The ____ knees (great)
- Apian group
- Hive hummers
- Honey bunch?
- Some are queens, others workers
- The __ knees (great)
- Parts of a business idea on {/Arrested Development/} that Gob says will "bring in honey"
- Busy buzzers
- Buzzers
- Critters experiencing colony collapse disorder
- Colony figures
- Events featuring ten-dollar words
- Some queens
