- BEE
- Drone, e.g.
- Mayberry aunt
- Nectar gatherer
- Quilters' gathering
- Spelling event
- Stinger sporter
- Where to sit for a spell?
- One proficient in buzz words
- The member of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants that's not Lena, Tibby, or Carmen
- Worker in a matriarchal society
- Belushi's "killer" character
- Royal jelly producer
- Spelling affair
- Waxmaker
- Frequent flyer?
- Kind of line
- Propolis collector
- Quilters' klatch
- Buzzer hidden four times in this puzzle
- Spell-off
- Participant in a hive mind?
- Hive member
- Insect used as an identifier of Beyonce fandom
- Queen, for one
- Stinging buzzer
- Spellbound event
- Creature threatened by neonicotinoids, per the EPA
- Creature in a Scripps logo
- Foraging creature
- Insect type for Barry B. Benson of filmdom
- Nectar collector
- Competition with etymologies
- Distant cousin of a murder hornet
- Spelldown setting
- Event where the competitors might share some words
- Letter-perfect time
- Letterman's contest?
- One in a sting operation
- Sacramento paper
- Small buzzer
- Spelling competition
- Spelling contest
- The Sacramento ___
- War of the words?
- Melissophobic's fear
- Late night comic Samantha
- Buzzer
- Maker of royal jelly
- Spelldown
- Akeelah and the __
- Akeelah's contest
- Orthography contest
- Quilters' party
- Fresno paper
- Orthography meet
- Colony member
- Apiphobe's fear
- Orthography challenge
- Apiphobe's worry
- One involved in a sting
- B.C. honey producer
- Queen or worker
- Apiary insect
- Speller's contest
- Flier among flowers
- ___ Season (Myla Goldberg novel)
- Fuzzy buzzer
- Geography competition, often
- Wax worker
- Insect with a pollen basket
- Pollen carrier
- Epitome of busyness
- Buzzing nectar seeker
- Opie's aunt
- Mantis morsel
- One performing a "waggle dance"
- Part of a daredevil's beard
- Subject for some scientists studying the traveling salesman problem
- 2019 event that produced the "octo-champs"
- Character-driven contest
- One can recognize individual human faces
- One said to take a direct line
- Wallace's giant one, of Indonesia, can reach an inch and a half long (!)
- Its "idleness" is "a tune", per Emily Dickinson
- Aunt of Mayberry
- Apiary resident
- Little buzzer
- Stinging insect
- Domesticated insect
- Gathering
- Waggle dance performer
- Apiary occupant
- Honey Nut Cheerios spokesinsect
- Nectar inspector
- Quilting get-together
- Sue ___ (honey brand)
- Honey manufacturer
- It may settle on a petal
- Letter-perfect contest?
- Rural get-together
- Sitcom aunt
- Bonnet buzzer
- Contest
- Event where one may spell "hymenopteran"
- Sacramento newspaper
- Drone, for one
- Quilting event
- Bumbler
- Flower buzzer
- Pollen spreader
- Apiary dweller
- Little stinger
- 2007 role for Seinfeld
- Quilters' convocation
- Worker in a cell
- Akeelah's spelling contest
- Blossom visitor
- Busy buzzer
- Flower pollinator
- Meet for a spell?
- School contest
- Social session
- Prairie social gathering
- Wax production expert?
- ___ Gees
- Collector of nectar
- Petal settler
- Quilter's social
- Mr. Bumble?
- Quilting klatsch
- Helpful pollinator
- Quilters' get-together
- Quilters' klatsch
- Stinger in a swarm
- Honey Nut Cheerios mascot
- Scripps-sponsored event
- You have to be letter-perfect to win one
- Apiarist's charge
- Object of an apiphobe's fear
- Honey Nut Cheerios mascot, for one
- Animal kept by Sherlock Holmes
- Honey ___ (2011 Blake Shelton song)
- Buzzer that would be out of place in a game show?
- Creature that might use a 63-Across?
- Candyman critter
- Get-together
- Stinger
- Queen ___
- Spelling competish
- Drone
- 63 Across denizen
- Busy little buzzer
- Hymenopterous insect
- Pollen gatherer
- Quilting session
- Spelling match
- Worker, perhaps
- ___ Gees of rock
- ___ balm
- Bug with a sting
- Honey follower
- Quilting social
- Spelling meet
- Honey gatherer
- Queen, maybe
- Social gathering
- Honey grubber
- Hive dweller
- Subject of the film "Spellbound"
- Event in the 2002 film "Spellbound"
- Frequent flier to a flower
- Buzzer in a hive
- Contest in the film "Spellbound"
- Contest involving letters
- Flower visitor
- One causing a buzz
- Queen's subject
- Where one usually doesn't sit for a spell?
- Bonnet denizen?
- Bonnet occupant?
- Event at which multiple repeats are common
- Event in which contestants ask for sentences
- Garden worker
- Maker of tiny combs
- Old-fashioned get-together
- Quilting party
- Scripps competition
- Sewing circle
- Blossom buzzer
- Drone or worker
- Sacramento daily
- Comb user
- Killer in a classic "SNL" sketch series
- Quilter's session
- Bonnet-dwelling insect?
- Busy one that has made its mark in this puzzle's five longest answers
- Honey source
- Opie's great-aunt
- Queen's consort
- Dragonfly prey
- Symbol of industry
- Buzzy body
- Fresno daily
- One rarely without a comb?
- Pollen eater
- Quilting gathering
- Nectar eater
- Full Frontal host Samantha
- Bumbling one
- Buzzing insect
- Cause of a buzz
- Hive builder
- One who does a waggle dance
- Urban center?
- Worker in a garden
- Contest where participants stand for a spell
- Creature found atop the apt part of each answer to a starred clue
- Focus word in a Scripps logo
- Four-winged flier
- It stings
- Pollen-packing petal pusher
- Busyness symbol
- Buzz creator
- Buzzing flier
- Spelling showdown
- 6th of December?
- Buzzer in a swarm
- Comb creator
- Contest involving letter placement
- Comedian Samantha
- Killer __
- Bumbling sort?
- Buzzworthy creature?
- Bud visitor
- Classroom competition
- Wax producer
- Plant pollinator
- Busy bug
- One of two domesticated insects
- Quilting occasion
- Honey handler
- Gathering for work
- Kind of contest
- Quilting convocation
- Themed gathering
- Aunt of Andy
- Comb maker
- Honeycomb maker
- 16 Across resident
- Bonnet bug
- Comb manufacturer
- Flying buzzer
- Busy one
- Stinging bug
- Queen or drone
- Apiary denizen
- Mockingbird snack
- Contest of a sort
- Kind of competition
- Small stinger
- Quaint gathering
- Quilter's meeting
- Airborne buzzer
- Cell dweller
- Community gathering
- Mockingbird prey
- Queen __
- Social worker
- Fuzzy flier
- Picnic pest
- Band leader
- Cell user
- Class competition
- Garden visitor
- Hive-dwelling insect
- Nectar detector
- Metaphorical obsession
- National Geographic __ (annual grade-school contest)
- Pollen collector
- Thing in a comb
- Comb dweller
- Common garden visitor
- Loud buzzer
- Peony pollinator
- Contest for spellers
- Contest of spelling
- Contest with definition requests
- Hive insect
- One known for bumbling
- Pollination participant
- Part of speech? questioner's contest
- Honey-making insect
- Quick buzzer
- Quilting convention
- Bug in a hive
- Event for spellers
- Particular kind of contest
- Burrito filling
- Community get-together
- Apiologist's study
- Busy worker
- Treat for an apivorous bird
- Akeelah and the ___
- Bumbling worker?
- Natural buzzer
- Performer of a waggle dance
- Swarm member
- One of a swarm
- Round dance performer
- Correspondent Samantha of "The Daily Show"
- Honeycomb creator
- One doing a waggle dance
- With 67-Across, colorful bird that feeds on insects
- Andrenid.
- Fabre's subject.
- Apis mellifera.
- Plato, the Athenian ___.
- Symbol of busyness.
- L. I. U. basketball coach.
- Social insect.
- Spelling ___.
- Insect.
- Neighborhood gathering.
- Resident of an apiary.
- Sophocles, the Attic ___.
- Eccentric idea in one's head.
- Neighborly gathering for work.
- Queen, worker or drone.
- Bonnet accessory.
- Ferdinand's nemesis.
- Sewing session.
- Husking party.
- Neighborly meeting for work.
- Old-time social affair.
- ___ bird (flycatcher).
- Friendly contest.
- Local gathering.
- Neighborly gathering.
- Sewing ___.
- Feeder on nectar.
- Apis mellifers.
- Neighborly meeting.
- Leaf cutter or mason.
- Busy insect.
- Quilting ___.
- Group activity.
- Letter.
- Pollinator.
- Sometime bonnet dweller.
- Sometime bonnet decor.
- Gathering of a sort.
- Paragon of activity.
- Rural gathering.
- Bonnet item.
- Country social.
- Queen, perhaps.
- Social
- Occasional bonnet occupant.
- Party.
- Relative of a social
- Nectar expert
- One kind of keeper
- Social affair
- Utah's insect
- ___ tree (hive location)
- Busy ___
- Queen or quilting
- Spellers' tourney
- Quilting or sewing
- Spelling or knitting
- Spelling or quilting
- Bonnet dweller
- Little pollinator
- Winged stinger
- Bonnet visitor
- Good mark
- Husking or quilting activity
- Hymenopterist's interest
- The ___ Gees, popular trio
- Queen ___, Joan Crawford film
- A gathering of sorts
- Apoidea member
- Denizen of an alveary
- Word with honey or Sea
- Queen ___, J. Crawford film
- Mason ___
- Dorcas Society meeting
- Hairy insect
- Pollinizer
- Basketball Hall of Fame coach
- Producer of royal jelly
- Worker or queen
- Bonnet inhabitant?
- Droner
- Mason or karbi
- Apiary inhabitant
- Karbi
- Hard worker
- Hum bug?
- Pollen distributor
- Busy body?
- Prey of a murder hornet
- Proverbial symbol of busyness
- See 34-Down
- Unfortunate occasion for a spelling error
- He could break out in hives
- Work party
- Hive occupant
- Insect contest?
- Sewing gathering
- Apiculturist's concern
- Certain line
- Quilting activity
- Quilt-making gathering
- A stingy fellow?
- Old-fashioned do
- Where to go for a spell?
- It's full of hard-to-spell words
- Orthographic meet
- Bumbling beast
- Event where one stands for a spell
- Old-fashioned party
- Royal jelly maker
- The ___ Gees
- Fresno newspaper
- Member of a colony
- Needling session?
- One seeking some anthers
- Community competition
- Frequent garden visitor
- One who's always buzzing off?
- Petal pusher?
- Quaint get-together
- Waggle dancer
- Builder of cells
- Community contest
- One doing garden work?
- Quilters' do
- Contest of sorts
- Garden visitor, perhaps
- Old-fashioned social
- Annual Scripps event
- Competition of sorts
- Frontier gathering
- Queen who might create quite a buzz?
- School competition
- You wouldn't sit for a spell in this
- One using a comb
- Busy type
- Apiphobiac's fear
- Aunt of 1960s TV
- Bud drinker?
- Cell occupant
- Contest in which the rules must be followed to the letter?
- Comb filler
- Scripps-sponsored event for kids
- One may be smoked out
- Plant visitor
- See 69-Across
- Competition in which the winner always gets the last word?
- Fancier of melliferous plants
- Insect with a stinger
- Wax source
- Orthographic competition
- Samantha of 96-Down
- Flier from flower to flower
- Gathering of quilters
- Something an apiphobe fears
- Stingy sort?
- Capital of Bolivia?
- Where you might go for a spell?
- Q: Why is a flower like the letter A? A: Because a ___ goes after it
- Common creature in rebus puzzles
- What 7-Down is pig Latin for
- Where one might sit for a spell?
- Worker with a comb
- Worker with wax
- Busyness representative?
- Daily newspaper in Sacramento, Calif.
- Insect whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet
- Second picture in an alphabet book, maybe
- Something that needs a spell checker?
- Source of some wax
- With 62-Across, persistent little obsession
- Frequent antagonist of Winnie-the-Pooh
- Samantha of "The Daily Show"
- Carpenter --
- Honey of a worker?
- Carpenter _____
- Nectar nosher
- Stinging flier
- Nectar lover
- Pollen lover
- Nectar fancier
- Buzzy insect
- Hive buzzer
- Comb insect
- Flying stinger
- Honeycomb insect
- Cell insect
- Indie duo The Bird and the ___
- Nuno Bettencourt "Flight of the Wounded Bumble___"
- Stevie Ray Vaughan "Honey ___"
- The Bird and the ___
- Tragedy ___ Gees
- Love You Inside Out ___ Gees
- Owl City "Honey and the ___"
- Stones "I'm a King ___"
- Drone or queen
- Essential worker in the honey business
- That stings!
- Orthographic contest
- Apis mellifera, for example
- It's black and yellow
- Sacramento's largest paper
- Royal-jelly
- Husking event
- Mrs. George Patton
- Full Frontal with Samantha ___
- Noted pollinator
- Busy one in a garden
- Word after spelling or quilting
- Candyman insect
- Competition where one might stand for a spell?
- One fuelled by flower power?
- Queen, of a sort
- Quilting follower
- Bonnet invader
- Competitive social gathering
- Word with queen or quilting
- Baltimore starter?
- Flower fertilizer
- Spelling bug
- Anther visitor
- Line of a sort
- Mayberry notable
- Quite a drone
- This may sting
- This may sting a little
- Certain colonist
- Honey of a letter?
- Honeycomb inhabitant
- Word with honey or spelling
- Hymenopteron
- It may sting a little
- It is entirely dependent on flowers for food
- Akeelah's event
- One that serves the queen
- Test for Akeelah
- Word with "spelling" or "quilting"
- It has a permanent buzz
- Start for Baltimore?
- Spelling or quilting contest
- Worker who serves a queen
- Insect that produces royal jelly
- It serves the queen
- Vital part of a sting operation?
- It can provide a buzz
- Nectar chaser
- Quilting match
- Servant of a small queen
- Insect such as a queen
- Pollen seeker
- Rose garden insect
- Waggle dance insect
- 54-Down producer
- Busy flier, or a hint to the starred answers' ends
- Often-fuzzy insect
- Sometimes-fuzzy buzzer
- Insect associated with Beyonce
- Insect like a drone
- Busy worker in the garden?
- Drone that doesn't run on batteries?
- Garden drone, e.g.
- Geography contest
- Honey producer
- Insect that does in fact have knees
- 3rd of February?
- Scripps National Spelling ___
- Buzzer that can't see red light
- Carpenter ___
- More Than Honey insect
- Word after "quilting" or "spelling"
- ___ House (honeymaking item in Stardew Valley)
- Hive inhabitant
- Speller's agon
- Spelling or quilting event
- Spelldown for one
- Spelling activity
- Speller's challenge
- Spelling e.g.
- Part of a swarm
- Skep occupant
- Hive denizen
- Hymenopteran
- Striped stinger
- Type of line
- Busy creature
- Industrious insect
- Quilting klatch
- Venomous insect
- It settles on petals
- This puzzle's fairly obvious theme word
- Worker with wings
- A domesticated insect
- Bloom visitor
- Worker or drone
- Honeycomb builder
- Maker of hexagonal cells
- Samantha of "Full Frontal"
- Six-legged drone
- Garden buzzer
- Insect associated with 41-Across
- Insect in a hive
- Buzzing creature
- Insect that might be a drone
- Insect that sounds like a letter
- Insect with a waggle dance
- Pollinating insect
- Scripps National mascot
- Six-legged buzzer
- Wasp's relative
- Insect that communicates with a "waggle dance"
- Something black and yellow that can't see red
- The Honey Nut Cheerios mascot is one
- Insect in the board game Apiary
- Insect that might be a queen
- Insect that secretes royal jelly
- Quilters' conclave
- Line maker
- One in a bonnet?
- One in a cell, maybe
- Petal visitor
- Social flier
- Hive-minded creature
- Buzzer by a bed
- Reading of letters?
- Queen, e.g.
- Worker in the wild
- Clover lover
- Worker in the fields
- Creature with a comb
- Queen, for example
- Many a worker
- Worker, for one
- Sting's producer?
- Activity to join for a spell
- Queen's attendant
- Waggle dance dancer
- Airborne drone, e.g.
- Worker in the orchard
- Worker in an orchard
- Sewing social
- Worker in a flower garden
- Worker in an orchard, e.g.
- Queen in a colony
- Spelling face-off
- Worker in a colony
