Referring Clues

• Hive dwellers
• Some parties
• Wax producers
• Waggle dance performers
• Apiary residents
• Competitions
• Flower fanciers
• Epitomes of busyness
• 14-Across residents
• Some contests
• Buzzers
• Wax makers
• Ones with combs
• Spelling contests
• Quilters' gatherings
• Quilters' parties
• 5338
• Theme of this puzzle
• Producers of some storage cells
• Drones, for example
• "The ___ knees" (great)
• Busy buzzers
• Nectar collectors
• Honey producers
• Some drones
• Birds' partners, in sex ed
• Pollen spreaders
• Quilting parties
• Some gatherings
• Creators of Ulee's gold
• Melissophobe's fear
• Honey bunch?
• Domesticated insects
• Honey bunch
• Small buzzers
• Some queens
• Some social workers
• Garden buzzers
• Queen's subjects
• 17-Across's charge
• Contests
• Work parties
• Industrious fliers
• Flying buzzers
• Stinging insects
• Spelling competitions
• Hummers at home in hives
• Quilting events
• Some competitions
• Symbols of industry
• Hive hummers
• Honey handlers
• Birds' partners
• Sting operators?
• Nectar harvesters
• Events for spellers
• Hairy-bodied insects
• Partner of birds
• Sex education subject?
• Queen's followers
• Many are drones
• They love their queen
• Spelling and quilting
• Busy insects
• Buzzing swarmers
• Some socials
• Source of Ulee's gold
• Queen's offspring
• With 131-Across, greatest thing
• Buzzing insects
• They serve a queen
• Health food store brand, Burt's ___
• Insects
• Comb producers
• Apiphobe's fear
• Honey makers
• Hive population
• Barn raisings
• Hive group
• They sting
• Buzzing swarm
• Some school competitions
• Social insects
• Comb users
• Waggle dancers
• Waggle-dancing insects
• Workers in the garden
• Sue Monk Kidd's insects with a "secret life"
• Apiphobe's bane
• Some buzzers
• Swarming stingers
• Mockingbird prey
• Stingy bunch?
• Stingy bunch
• Flower-loving buzzers
• A swarm of ______
• They have a queen but no king
• Insects with "secret lives," per a Sue Monk Kidd title
• Waggle dance insects
• Hive insects
• Apiary denizens
• Hive residents
• Some barn raisings
• Apiary dwellers
• Certain contests
• Hive inhabitants
• 37-Down's concerns
• Buzzers around blossoms
• Buzzing bunch
• Pollen gatherers
• Hive buzzers
• Some are killer
• Contests whose competitors stand in place
• Swarm members
• Honeycomb makers
• "Ulee's Gold" insects
• They can make quite a buzz
• Colony members
• Fliers with stingers
• "victory garden" buzzers
• Hive denizens
• Cause of hives
• They live in hives
• Insects that love flowers
• Cellmates?
• Workers among the flowers
• Consult bishop about busy workers
• Sources of some allergies
• Insects in a hive
• Creatures that do a waggle dance
• Hive creatures
• Insects with a waggle dance
• Striped stinger
• "The Secret Life of ___"
• Jewel Akens: "The Birds and the ___"
• Some domesticated insects
• Alanis Morissette "Knees of My ___"
• "Birds do it, ___ do it, even educated fleas do it"
• Social workers?
• Apiary inhabitants
• Their quarters are combed for food
• See 11
• See 16
• They don't sound like jays flying about in the garden
• They generate buzz
• Insects with stingers
• Cellblock workers?
• Swarm around a hive
• Busy people in great musical trio, so-called
• Cellmates?
• Buzzers on blossoms
• Queens and drones
• Picnic hamperers
• Buzz makers
• Honey bunches?
• Domesticated swarm
• Busy bunch
• Apiary creatures
• Drones or workers
• Honey hoarders
• "Subjects" of a queen, not a king
• Buzzers at Brentford
• Honey-making insects
• They might break out in hives
• Honey bunch?
• Drones, e.g.
• Winged collectors
• Makers of fine combs
• What apiphobes fear
• Pollinating insects
• Workers in an orchard
• Sting-y pollinators?
• Quilting socials
• Carpenters and masons, for two
• Flying insects
• Contents of an apiary
• Rose garden insects
• Rose pollinators
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• Plant kingdom/animal kingdom connectors
• Makers of food in wax
• Brentford players, all six-footers
• Insects that hover near flowers
• Fliers with combs
• Honeybunch?
• Humbugs?
• They have queens but no kings
• Half a sex-ed metaphor, with "the"
• They work in cells
• Good marks
• Spell-offs
• Apiphobe's phobia
• A queen's workers
• "Busy" ones
• Orchard pollinators
• Hive occupants
• Nectar seekers
• Some queens but not kings
• Members of the genus Apis
• The ___ knees
• Comb builders
• Wax figures?
• Buzzing pollinators
• Crucial pollinators
• The ___ knees (the cat's meow)
• "Save the ___" (modern conservation slogan)
• Pollinators that can see in the ultraviolet spectrum
• Bumbling insects
• Melittologist's study
• Insects whose queens are fed royal jelly
• They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology
• They have five eyes and communicate by dancing
• Flower-visiting buzzers