| MANUKA | Type of honey originating in New Zealand |
| BRAEBURN | Apple originating in New Zealand (8) |
| TINPANALLEY | Colloquial term for the world of composers and publishers of popular music, originating in New York (3,3,5) |
| JAZZ | Style of music originating in New Orleans (4) |
| BLACK | Popular dance of the 1920s originating in New Orleans (5,6) |
| BOTTOM | Popular dance of the 1920s originating in New Orleans (5,6) |
| RUNNY | Dash to New York for a type of honey (5) |
| MEL | Pure type of honey formerly used in pharmaceutical products (3) |
| SALSA | Social dance with a Latin American influence, originating in New York in the mid 1970s (5) |
| STINGER | Cocktail of brandy (usually Cognac) and creme de menthe originating in New York City c. 1890 (7) |
| DIXIELAND | Jazz originating in New Orleans (9) |
| MAINECOON | Breed known as "The Gentle Giant", originating in New England |
| BEANPOLE | Thin type of honey producer welcomes pal on travels (8) |
| HEATHER | Warm up the girl with type of honey (7) |
| COTSWOLD | Variety of honey-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone characteristic of many of the cottages and walls of villages including Castle Combe, Stanton, Bibury and Kingham (8) |
| SWARM | To climb by gripping with one's hands/feet; a throng of honey bees; a mass of bioluminescent krill, visible from space; a shower of meteors; or, a series of earthquakes (5) |
| APIARY | Source of honey and, going back years, a type of beer |
| AMBER | Typically in shades of honey-yellow, golden-brown or cognac, a form of fossilised resin derived from ancient trees which is used as a gem (5) |
| NECTAR | Word originally for the gods' drink of eternal life in mythology that has come to mean essence collected from flowers by pollinators including bees that forms the basis of honey (6) |
| HIVE | Source of honey I have in short is a colony of bees (4) |
