| BEEHIVE | Home for certain hymenopterans (7) |
| INSURE | Indemnify at home for certain |
| BEES | Busy people, competitions for spelling or gatherings for quilting/sewing, all named for their resemblance to industrious sociable buzzing or humming honey-making hymenopterans of the same name (4) |
| SMOKER | A type of "puffer" for calming hive hymenopterans; or, a person who cures charcuterie, cheese, salmon etc by means of vapours rising from burning hickory, oak or other wood (6) |
| ANTS | 'Some. of the hymenopterans |
| WASPS | Hymenopterans |
| BEEHIVES | Apiarian honey-making factories, teeming busily with melliferous hymenopterans, thus symbolic of bustling activity or buzzing places; or, dome-shaped hairstyles, imagined to resemble traditional woven |
| ACCUSES | Blames for using a club for certain ends (7) |
| JETPORT | Landing area etc for certain aeroplanes (7) |
| ASSURED | Fool's rude, that's for certain (7) |
| ENFORCE | Some of the men for certain had drive (7) |
| SECTORS | Special escorts for certain zones (7) |
| GROUNDS | Keeps earth-bound for certain reason (7) |
| JUMPERS | Garments for certain racehorses? (7) |
| CITROEN | Far out -for certain, adrift (7) |
| RUNNERS | Beans provided for certain athletes (7) |
| HELIPAD | Landing-place for certain aircraft (7) |
| ENSIGNS | Distinguishing marks for certain officers (7) |
| SURREAL | Actual support for certain cut is bizarre (7) |
| LEISURE | Spare time to lie around for certain (7) |
