| BUGS | Beetles, bees and ants (4) |
| SOCIAL | Like bees and ants |
| HYMENOPTERA | Insect order that includes wasps, bees and ants (11) |
| MONOGYNY | Practice of males mating with one female, but not vice versa, as in bees and ants |
| ADAM | Name shared by actor Sandler and singers Levine and Ant (4) |
| LEGS | Humans have two of them and ants have six |
| RUDD | Captain America: Civil War and Ant-man actor, Paul ___ (4) |
| KAMA | Represented with a bow of sugar cane, a bowstring of bees and arrows of flowers, the Hindu god of love (4) |
| ANTS | Insects in an order that includes bees and wasps that live in organised colonies or "armies" (4) |
| LOVE | WizTheMc's demanding hit with Bees & Honey (4,2,4) |
| MINT | Common name of a family of bee and butterfly-enticing plants/herbs including lemon balm, hyssop, lavender, rosemary, marjoram and self-heal (4) |
| CEES | Bees-and-dees in-betweens |
| ESPN | Channel that has covered spelling bees and poker tournaments |
| HIVE | Box for bees and an itchy spot |
| BEATEN | Bee and ant somehow get defeated (6) |
| RUBY | Are you followed by bee and why? It's said to make you red (4) |
| APIS | From Latin for "bee" and related to Greek for "swarm", the genus of a hive-dwelling melliferous hymenopteran that is able to effectively discriminate between colours of flower petals (4) |
| SHOO | "Make like a bee and buzz off!" |
| TUNA | Fish sold by Bumble Bee and StarKist |
| COLLECTOR | There are many different types of worker bees, all with their own job to do. These include:- ___ bees, Transfer bees, Guard bees, Nurse bees, Builder bees, Housekeeper bees and Fan bees |
