Referring Clues

• Quilting party
• Bumbling beast
• Event where one stands for a spell
• Drone, e.g.
• Small buzzer
• Quilting event
• Quilters' klatch
• Stinger
• Busy one
• Old-fashioned party
• Buzzer
• Spell-off
• Wax producer
• Royal jelly maker
• Class competition
• The ___ Gees
• Member of a colony
• One seeking some anthers
• Needling session?
• Spelling contest
• Fresno newspaper
• Community competition
• Worker in a garden
• Honey maker
• Domesticated insect
• Frequent garden visitor
• Petal pusher?
• "Busy" one
• One who's always buzzing off?
• Waggle dancer
• Quaint get-together
• Comb maker
• One doing garden work?
• Community contest
• Quilters' do
• Builder of cells
• Waggle dance performer
• Contest of sorts
• Fuzzy flier
• Old-fashioned social
• Hive occupant
• Garden visitor, perhaps
• Annual Scripps event
• Nectar collector
• Queen who might create quite a buzz?
• School competition
• Frontier gathering
• Competition of sorts
• Spelling competition
• Swarm member
• You wouldn't sit for a spell in this
• One using a comb
• Nectar inspector
• Apiary occupant
• Sue ___ (honey brand)
• Quilting get-together
• Honey Nut Cheerios spokesinsect
• Honey manufacturer
• Letter-perfect contest?
• Sitcom aunt
• It may settle on a petal
• Rural get-together
• Little buzzer
• Event where one may spell "hymenopteran"
• Contest
• Bonnet buzzer
• Sacramento newspaper
• Drone, for one
• Bumbler
• Flower buzzer
• Fuzzy buzzer
• Pollen spreader
• Little stinger
• Apiary insect
• Apiary resident
• Quilters' convocation
• Apiary dweller
• 2007 role for Seinfeld
• Worker in a cell
• Busy buzzer
• Blossom visitor
• Social session
• Flower pollinator
• School contest
• Meet for a spell?
• Akeelah's spelling contest
• Community get-together
• Natural buzzer
• Spelldown
• Performer of a waggle dance
• Social worker?
• Bumbling worker?
• "Akeelah and the ___"
• One of a swarm
• Quilting klatsch
• Round dance performer
• One doing a waggle dance
• Buzzer in a hive
• Band leader?
• With 67-Across, colorful bird that feeds on insects
• Bonnet denizen?
• Event in which contestants ask for sentences
• Bonnet occupant?
• Garden worker
• Event at which multiple repeats are common
• One causing a buzz
• Queen's subject
• Quilters' gathering
• Where one usually doesn't sit for a spell?
• Contest involving letters
• Flower visitor
• Contest in the film "Spellbound"
• Queen, maybe
• Stinging insect
• Mayberry aunt
• Apiary denizen
• Mockingbird snack
• Dragonfly prey
• Kind of competition
• Contest of a sort
• Small stinger
• Hive dweller
• Honey handler
• Quilter's meeting
• Quaint gathering
• Comb user
• Queen or drone
• Quilting session
• "Akeelah and the ___"
• Pollen collector
• Certain colonist
• Where to go for a spell?
• Akeelah's contest
• Akeelah's event
• One that serves the queen
• Anther visitor
• Bonnet invader
• It is entirely dependent on flowers for food
• This may sting
• Quilters' get-together
• Spelling bug
• Hum bug?
• Nectar gatherer
• ___ Gees
• Industrious insect
• Venomous insect
• Quilting klatch
• Worker who serves a queen
• Opie's aunt
• Quilter's gathering
• Royal jelly producer
• This may sting a little
• Busy creature
• Type of line
• Speller's contest
• Speller's agon
• Spelling, e.g.
• Comb manufacturer
• Scripps competition
• Queen's subject?
• Busy one?
• Sewing circle
• Wax production expert?
• Busy type
• Prairie social gathering
• Maker of tiny combs
• Old-fashioned get-together
• Airborne buzzer
• Petal settler
• Aunt of 1960s TV
• Apiphobiac's fear
• Collector of nectar
• It settles on petals
• Cell occupant
• Honeycomb maker
• Queen or worker
• Nectar nosher
• Honey grubber?
• Peony pollinator
• Comb dweller
• Spelling or quilting contest
• Type of contest
• Test for Akeelah
• Communal effort
• Leaf cutter, for one
• A ____ in the bonnet
• Word after quilting or spelling
• Busy insect
• Neighbourly quilting
• Community effort
• Barn raising
• Bud drinker?
• Community undertaking
• Sacramento daily
• Drone or worker
• Propolis collector
• Quilting social
• Quilter's social
• Contest in which the rules must be followed to the letter?
• Word with "spelling" or "quilting"
• Quilting gathering
• Blossom buzzer
• First letter of 30-Down
• Spell-down
• 14-Across dweller
• Garden visitor
• Garden flier
• Worker with wings
• Worker, e.g.
• Rural gathering
• Hive resident
• Worker, for one
• Hive denizen
• One of the swarm
• Quilting do
• Hive resident
• Pollen carrier
• Pollen eater
• Hive buzzer
• Buzzy insect
• Picnic pest
• Stinging flier
• Stinging buzzer
• Nectar fancier
• Spelling event
• Nectar lover
• Pollen lover
• Community gathering
• Certain contest
• Mr. Bumble?
• Queen ___
• Killer in a classic "SNL" sketch series
• Hive member
• Petal lander
• Quilter's session
• Mockingbird prey
• Buzzing insect
• ... and another
• Symbol of industry
• Keeper's thing
• Social worker
• Honey grubber
• Barn raising, for example
• It may sting a little
• Queen, for example
• Busy bug
• Honeycomb insect
• Creature with a comb
• Collective endeavor
• One might generate buzz
• Baltimore starter?
• Sterile female worker, e.g.
• Opie's great-aunt
• Quilters' klatsch
• Scripps-sponsored event for kids
• This puzzle's fairly obvious theme word
• Comb filler
• Honey source
• TV aunt
• Wax worker
• Many a worker
• Queen's consort
• Comb insect
• Stinger in a swarm
• Nectar detector
• Competitive social gathering
• Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers
• Helpful pollinator
• Bonnet-dwelling insect?
• It has a permanent buzz
• Plant visitor
• Honey Nut Cheerios mascot
• Diligent insect
• Scripps-sponsored event
• Type of event that recently had co-champions
• Flower lover
• You have to be letter-perfect to win one
• "Adios!"
• Symbol of Egyptian royalty
• Hymenopteron
• See 69-Across
• Flying stinger
• One may be smoked out
• Quite a drone
• Royal-jelly producer
• Band leader
• Seinfield's "___ Movie"
• Bonnet visitor
• Sting's producer?
• Buzzy body
• Word with "queen" or "quilting"
• Object of an apiphobe's fear
• Cell insect
• Hive-dwelling insect
• One rarely without a comb?
• Fresno daily
• Fancier of melliferous plants
• Drone
• Competition in which the winner always gets the last word?
• Maker of royal jelly
• Wax source
• One in a bonnet?
• Former "Daily Show" correspondent Samantha
• National Geographic ___ (annual grade-school contest)
• Garden worker?
• Insect with a stinger
• Certain line
• Hive builder
• Thing in a comb
• With 67-Across, protein source for a hive
• Producer of royal jelly
• It buzzes around flowers
• Metaphorical obsession
• One hovering around the flowers
• Worker or drone
• Pollen gatherer
• Pollinating insect
• Nectar eater
• Nectar fan?
• School happening
• Line of a sort
• Orthographic competition
• Andy Taylor's aunt
• Obsessive idea metaphor
• Word with honey or spelling
• "Busy" bug
• Symbol of busyness
• Vital part of a sting operation?
• Insect that produces royal jelly
• Aunt on "The Andy Griffith show"
• Stinging thing
• It serves the queen
• A domesticated insect
• Social gathering
• Samantha of 96-Down
• Cause of a buzz
• Quilting match
• Honey producer
• Busy as a ___
• Good grade
• Hive insect
• Andy's aunt
• Nectar hunter
• Quilting ___
• Garden buzzer
• Social
• Honeycomb builder
• Word with honey or bumble
• Insect that stings
• Spelling ___ (contest)
• Honey Nut Cheerios insect
• Bumble ___
• Honey-making insect
• Subject of an animated Seinfeld film
• "Sting like a ___"
• Spelling ___
• Busy buzzing bug
• Buzzing, stinging insect
• Contest where you'd hear words like "euonym" and "autochthonous"
• Putnam County competition, in a Broadway title
• Busy buzzer with a stinger
• Bug with a hive
• Sewing gathering
• "Bumbling" insect
• Thing in a hive
• Contest where you'd hear "chiaroscurist"
• Hive bug
• Drone or queen?
• Insect
• Busy little buzzer
• Busy bug around a hive
• "Full Frontal" host Samantha
• Insect on a box of Honey Nut Cheerios
• Flying insect
• Insect type
• Spelling meet
• Indie duo The Bird and the ___
• Stevie Ray Vaughan "Honey ___"
• Nuno Bettencourt "Flight of the Wounded Bumble___"
• The Bird and the ___
• Bloom visitor
• "Tragedy" ___ Gees
• "Love You Inside Out" ___ Gees
• Owl City "Honey and the ___"
• See 17
• Stones "I'm a King ___"
• "Stayin' Alive" ___ Gees
• "Too Much Heaven" ___ Gees
• Competition
• Flying insect (often busy)
• Could this six-footer be an egghead?
• A very hard worker, the letter said
• Said it's after a flying insect
• Six-footer in a bonnet?
• Live at Bourne End, as a worker
• Before, had forgone the buzzer
• Be heard as a buzzer
• Worker in a tube extension?
• It hums a note for us to hear
• Comb creator
• Sacramento paper
• Activity to join for a spell
• Winged insect
• Spelling test buzzer
• He hums Beethoven's Third
• Waggle dance dancer
• Hive queen
• Flower fertilizer
• This might sting
• It works hard for the honey
• Mayberry matriarch
• Apiarist's subject
• Buzzing nectar seeker
• Epitome of busyness
• Insect with a pollen basket
• Geography competition, often
• Little pollinator
• Queen, e.g.
• Hard worker, busy ___
• A ___ in your bonnet
• Gathering for busy person
• Meat cut for queen, say
• Airborne drone, e.g.
• Country contest
• Cell buzzer
• Hive creature
• Wax maker
• Insect that collects nectar
• Sue ___ (brand of honey)
• Insect that carries pollen
• Bud drinker?
• Samantha of "Full Frontal"
• Honey Nut Cheerios creature
• Maker of hexagonal cells
• Buzzer with antennae
• A good worker, the letter said
• Good mark
• Insect that hovers around flowers
• Samantha who hosts TBS's "Full Frontal"
• Mr. Bumble?
• Flier from flower to flower
• Gathering of quilters
• Worker in the orchard
• Stingy sort?
• Urban center?
• Second letter
• It can provide a buzz
• Husking event
• Be noted as the busy type
• One who does a waggle dance
• Daisy visitor
• Servant of a small queen
• Buzzing creature
• Nectar chaser
• Something an apiphobe fears
• Flying worker
• Worker in the fields
• Cell dweller
• Six-legged drone
• Bumbling one
• Worker having to live at central Harlesden
• Drone or queen
• Pollinator
• Winged stinger
• Insect such as a queen
• Pollen-packing petal pusher
• Loud buzzer
• It stings
• Rose garden insect
• Waggle dance insect
• Worker or queen
• Creature found atop the apt part of each answer to a starred clue
• Where you might go for a spell?
• Hive worker
• Pollen seeker
• Common garden visitor
• Contest where participants stand for a spell
• Be noted as a flier
• Capital of Bolivia?
• Swarming insect
• Focus word in a Scripps logo
• Social insect
• Small queen's subject
• Four-winged flier
• Spelling creature?
• Busy flier, or a hint to the starred answers' ends
• Busy worker
• After honey, perhaps, be at the back of the queue
• Often-fuzzy insect
• Q: Why is a flower like the letter A? A: Because a ___ goes after it
• Honey insect
• Hive inhabitant
• Contest with definition requests
• 54-Down producer
• Contest of spelling
• Worker in a flower garden
• Beside all but Sid, a six-footer
• Buzz creator
• Contest for spellers
• Insect in a hive
• Insect with five eyes and two stomachs
• One known for bumbling
• Busyness symbol
• Be noted as an industrious worker
• Said the letter travels by air
• Be noted as a Brentford player
• May be humming the note you hear
• Insect associated with 41-Across
• Pollination participant
• Honey of an insect?
• Buzzing flier
• Event in the 2002 film "Spellbound"
• Creature in a hive
• Sometimes-fuzzy buzzer
• Spelling showdown
• Honey Nut Cheerios critter
• Unfortunate occasion for a spelling error
• Buzzer in a swarm
• Scripps National mascot
• Hive hoverer
• Six-legged buzzer
• Busy worker?
• Prey of a murder hornet
• 6th of December?
• Insect that sounds like a letter
• Contest involving letter placement
• Insect that might be a drone
• Busy body?
• Insect with a waggle dance
• Proverbial symbol of busyness
• Letter before cee
• Black and yellow creature
• Six-footer in a bonnet?
• If this was your pet insect, you might call it "Honey"
• Little pollen-gatherer
• "More Than Honey" insect
• Industrious buzzer
• Insect that many run from
• Killer ___
• Insect that's very busy in summer
• ___ House (honeymaking item in Stardew Valley)
• See 34-Down
• Where one might sit for a spell?
• Bonnet dweller
• Scripps National Spelling ___
• What 7-Down is pig Latin for
• Common creature in rebus puzzles
• Worker with a comb
• Said it's a key factor in pollination
• Comedian Samantha
• Worker with wax
• Buzzworthy creature?
• Small worker
• The Honey Nut Cheerios mascot is one
• Daily newspaper in Sacramento, Calif.
• Insect whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet
• Something black and yellow that can't see red
• "Worker" known for producing sweet results
• Something that needs a spell checker?
• Insect buzzing about
• With 62-Across, persistent little obsession
• Worker in a tube extension?
• Insect that communicates with a "waggle dance"
• Wasp's relative
• Busyness representative?
• Bumbling sort?
• Honey-making creature
• Insect that secretes royal jelly
• A stingy little thing?
• Bug in a hive
• Bumble___
• Bud visitor
• Insect that might be a queen
• Frequent antagonist of Winnie-the-Pooh
• Hum bug?
• Insect in the board game Apiary
• A stingy fellow?
• Classroom competition
• Quilters' meet-up
• Buzzing pollinator
• It generates a lot of buzz
• Honeycomb creator
• Insect with five eyes
• Pollen-spreading insect
• Buzzer near a flower
• Competition with some defining moments?
• Comb builder
• Busy ___
• Social gathering of a sort
• A ___ in one's bonnet
• Quilting or spelling
• Chance to stand for a spell?
• Could this six-footer be an egghead?