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• ___ balm

• ___ Gees

• ___ Gees of rock

• ... and for the ___ that is in the land of Assyria (Isa

• ....sting like a ___!

• '___ Season' (Myla Goldberg novel)

• 2007 role for Seinfeld

• A stingy fellow?

• Airborne buzzer

• Akeelah and the ___

• Akeelah's contest

• Akeelah's event

• Akeelah's spelling contest

• Annual Scripps event

• Anther visitor

• Apiarist's concern

• Apiary denizen

• Apiary dweller

• Apiary inhabitant

• Apiary insect

• Apiary occupant

• Apiary resident

• Apiculturist's concern

• Apiologist's study

• Apiphobe's fear

• Apiphobiac's fear

• Apis mellifera, for example

• Apoidea member

• Aunt of 1960s TV

• Aunt of Andy

• Aunt of Mayberry

• B.C. honey producer

• Bagwell is a Killer one

• Baltimore starter?

• Band leader?

• Basketball Hall of Fame coach

• Belushi SNL character

• Belushi's killer character

• Black buzzer

• Black-and-yellow buzzer

• Blossom buzzer

• Blossom visitor

• Bonnet bug

• Bonnet buzzer

• Bonnet denizen?

• Bonnet dweller?

• Bonnet invader

• Bonnet occupant?

• Bonnet visitor

• Brainy contest

• Bud drinker?

• Bug with a sting

• Builder of cells

• Bumbler

• Bumbling beast

• Bumbling worker?

• Burrito filling

• Busy bug

• Busy buzzer

• Busy creature

• Busy insect

• Busy little buzzer

• Busy one

• Busy type

• Busy worker

• Buzzer

• Buzzer hidden four times in this puzzle

• Buzzer in a hive

• Buzzer with a barb

• Buzzing insect

• Capital of Brazil?

• Carpenter ___

• Cell occupant

• Certain colonist

• Certain contest

• Class competition

• Classroom competition

• Clover lover

• Collector of nectar

• Colony member

• Comb dweller

• Comb maker

• Comb manufacturer

• Comb user

• Community competition

• Community contest

• Community gathering

• Community get-together

• Competition of sorts

• Competitive social gathering

• Contest

• Contest in the film Spellbound

• Contest in which the rules must be followed to the letter?

• Contest in which you'd hear words like euonym and autochthonous

• Contest involving letters

• Contest of a sort

• Contest of sorts

• Contest where you'd hear chiaroscurist

• Correspondent Samantha of The Daily Show

• Domesticated insect

• Dragonfly prey

• Drone

• Drone or worker

• Drone, e.g.

• Drone, for one

• Early Rolling Stones song I'm a King ___

• Endangered insect

• Event at which multiple repeats are common

• Event in the 2002 film Spellbound

• Event in which contestants ask for sentences

• Event where one may spell hymenopteran

• Event where one stands for a spell

• Feeder on nectar

• Flier among flowers

• Flower buzzer

• Flower fertilizer

• Flower pollinator

• Flower visitor

• Flower-bed frequenter

• Flyer to a flower

• Flying buzzer

• Frequent flier to a flower

• Frequent garden visitor

• Fresno newspaper

• Fresno paper

• Frontier gathering

• Fuzzy buzzer

• Fuzzy flier

• Fuzzy stinger

• Garden visitor, perhaps

• Garden worker

• Gathering

• Gathering for work

• Get-together

• Hall of Fame college hoops coach, Clair

• He could break out in hives

• Hive builder

• Hive buzzer

• Hive denizen

• Hive dweller

• Hive inhabitant

• Hive member

• Hive occupant

• Hive resident

• Honey ending?

• Honey follower

• Honey gatherer

• Honey grubber

• Honey handler

• Honey maker

• Honey manufacturer

• Honey Nut Cheerios mascot

• Honey Nut Cheerios spokesinsect

• Honey of a letter?

• Honey of a worker?

• Honey source

• Honeycomb creator

• Honeycomb inhabitant

• Honeycomb maker

• Honeycomb resident

• Hum bug

• Husking contest

• Husking event

• Hymenoptera insect

• Hymenoptera member

• Hymenopteran

• Hymenopterous insect

• Indie duo The Bird and the ___

• Industrious insect

• Insect

• Insect contest?

• Insect whose Labor is a Chant, to Emily Dickinson (3)

• It is entirely dependent on flowers for food

• It may settle on a petal

• It may sting a little

• It settles on petals

• It's black and yellow

• It's full of hard-to-spell words

• It's got a buzz on

• John Belushi character on SNL

• Keeper's bug

• Killer in a classic SNL sketch series

• Kind of competition

• Kind of contest

• Kind of line

• Letter-perfect contest?

• Letter-perfect time

• Line maker

• Line of a sort

• Little buzzer

• Little stinger

• Maker of royal jelly

• Maker of tiny combs

• Many a worker

• Mason or karbi

• Mayberry aunt

• Mayberry lady

• Mayberry matron

• Mayberry notable

• Meet

• Meet for a spell?

• Member of a colony

• Mockingbird prey

• Mockingbird snack

• Mr. Bumble?

• Mrs. George Patton

• Natural buzzer

• Nectar collector

• Nectar fancier

• Nectar gatherer

• Nectar inspector

• Nectar lover

• Nectar nosher

• Nectar-collecting insect

• Needling session?

• Noted pollinator

• Nuno Bettencourt Flight of the Wounded Bumble___

• Old-fashioned do

• Old-fashioned get-together

• Old-fashioned party

• Old-fashioned social

• One causing a buzz

• One doing a waggle dance

• One doing garden work?

• One in a bonnet?

• One in a cell, maybe

• One in a sting operation

• One involved in a sting

• One of a swarm

• One of two domesticated insects

• One seeking some anthers

• One that serves the queen

• One using a comb

• One who's always buzzing off?

• Opie's aunt

• Opie's great aunt

• Orthographic contest

• Orthographic meet

• Orthography challenge

• Orthography tilt

• Part of a swarm

• Peony pollinator

• Performer of a waggle dance

• Petal lander

• Petal pusher

• Petal settler

• Picnic pest

• Plant pollinator

• Pollen carrier

• Pollen collector

• Pollen eater

• Pollen gatherer

• Pollen lover

• Pollen spreader

• Pollinator

• Prairie social gathering

• Propolis collector

• Putnam County competition, in a Broadway title

• Quaint gathering

• Quaint get-together

• Queen ___

• Queen or drone

• Queen or worker

• Queen who might create quite a buzz?

• Queen, e.g.

• Queen, for one

• Queen, maybe

• Queen, of a sort

• Queen's subject

• Quilt-making gathering

• Quilter's gathering

• Quilter's get-together

• Quilter's meeting

• Quilter's session

• Quilter's social

• Quilters' conclave

• Quilters' convocation

• Quilters' do

• Quilters' klatch

• Quilters' party

• Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

• A social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions