| BEESWAX | Honey- and nectar-scented substance made by the insects looked after by apiculturists, used for candles, lip balm, furniture polish and such like (7) |
| ORCHID | Bee -; wild flower resembling or mimicking an insect looked after by an apiculturist (6) |
| ENAMEL | Hardest substance made by the body |
| HONEY | Substance or food produced by the insects studied in melittology (5) |
| POLLINATION | Job done by the insects seen above the circled words in 17-, 26- and 50-Across |
| BEES | Insects kept by apiculturists that can be encouraged into gardens with the deployment of seed "bombs |
| BEFORE | Because trapped by the insect earlier on |
| MANTIS | Mother isn't upset by the insect (6) |
| THISTLE | Prickly plant whose flowers, immortalised on coats of arms, coins, Scottish emblems and shortbread rounds, provide downy parachute-like seeds for goldfinches and nectar for bumblebees and painted ladi |
| GLASS | Hard, brittle, transparent, translucent or shining substance made by fusing sand with soda and lime and sometimes other ingredients |
| PRALINE | Smooth sweet substance made by boiling crushed nuts in sugar, used especially as a filling for chocolates (7) |
| AMBROSIA | Another name for bee-bread, mixture of pollen and nectar prepared by bees (8) |
| COASTLINE | General word for shore or where the land meets sea, 780 UK miles of which is looked after by the National Trust (9) |
| ORCHARD | Looked after by a pomologist, a garden for fruit and nut trees, traditionally apple, pear, damson, plum, walnut ... (7) |
| EPPIEC | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |
| EPPIECASS | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |
| CASS | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of tint name by George Eliot (5,4) |
| EPPIE | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of tint name by George Eliot (5,4) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | Structure with a lantern room such as the one at Portland Bill or the one situated on Longstone Rock formerly looked after by Grace Darling's father (10) |
| FEEBLEMINDED | The weak are looked after by the dim-witted (6-6) |
