Answer: BEES
BEES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 166 times.
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
 - Buzzers on blossoms
 - Buzz makers
 - Honey bunches?
 - Domesticated swarm
 - Apiary creatures
 - Apiculture topic
 - "Subjects" of a queen, not a king
 - They might break out in hives
 - Workers all abuzz
 - Drones, e.g.
 - Winged collectors
 - Makers of fine combs
 - What apiphobes fear
 - Pollinating insects
 - Sting-y pollinators?
 - Contents of an apiary
 - Rose garden insects
 - Rose pollinators
 - & 22. Something neat, with "the"
 - Plant kingdom/animal kingdom connectors
 - Makers of food in wax
 - Fliers with combs
 - Honeybunch?
 - Humbugs?
 - Half a sex-ed metaphor, with "the"
 - They work in cells
 - Contests in which the competitors are eliminated one by one
 - Spell-offs
 - Apiphobe's phobia
 - "Busy" ones
 - Orchard pollinators
 - Hive occupants
 - Nectar seekers
 - Some queens but not kings
 - Members of the genus Apis
 - Wax figures?
 - Buzzing pollinators
 - Crucial pollinators
 - "Save the ___" (modern conservation slogan)
 - Pollinators that can see in the ultraviolet spectrum
 - Honey-making insects
 - Hive members
 - Melittologist's study
 - Insects whose queens are fed royal jelly
 - They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 17, 2025
 - LA Times - October 03, 2025
 - New York Times - September 27, 2025
 - New York Times - July 08, 2025
 - New York Times - May 25, 2025
 - USA Today - May 09, 2025
 - USA Today - February 03, 2025
 - LA Times - December 18, 2024
 - New York Times - November 10, 2024
 - LA Times - October 24, 2024
 - USA Today - August 14, 2024
 - LA Times - April 13, 2024
 - USA Today - March 04, 2024
 - New York Times - February 18, 2024
 - LA Times - September 08, 2023
 - LA Times - July 20, 2023
 - USA Today - July 20, 2023
 - New York Times - June 29, 2023
 - New York Times - June 09, 2023
 - USA Today - April 26, 2023
 
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