| ASWARMASTOAST | Some bees and an ermine eating sugar are cosily heated (2,4,2,5) |
| HIVE | Box for bees and an itchy spot |
| PLANTATION | Estate where coffee or sugar are grown, perhaps (10) |
| 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 |
| FRISBEE | Some bees about on Friday and another flyer (7) |
| LEONARDO | Italian polymath noted for his use of the techniques sfumato and chiaroscuro in paintings including Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Lady with an Ermine (8) |
| DRONES | Makes a noise like some bees (6) |
| POLLEN | What some bees collect in special "baskets" on their legs |
| PORTRAITS | General word for paintings such as Lady with an Ermine, the Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pear Earring (9) |
| TREES | "Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the ... and the moon up above; And |
| STOAT | Mammal known as an ermine with its white winter coat (5) |
| WEASEL | If it turns white, it's an ermine |
| CHAPEAU | Hat or cap, typically a red one with an ermine lining, in heraldry (7) |
| INSECTS | An entomologist is a scientist who studies ants and bees and beetles and fleas |
| STOATTOAST | Breakfast for an ermine? |
| QUILTERS | Some bee workers |
| SEWN | Made like some bee products |
| THETREES | Herb Newman wrote that song about the birds and the bees and the flowers and these (3,5) |
| IVY | Providing nectar for bees and butterflies and a bounty of winter berries for blackbirds, thrushes, redwings and wood pigeons, the evergreen vine Hedera helix (3) |
| NATURE | The birds and the bees and a flower finished off King Cole (6) |
