| ATASTE | "___of Honey" |
| TASTE | "A ___ of Honey" (1961) |
| GOTAJOB | "___ of Honey" |
| 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) |
| TUSHINGHAM | Rita ---, Liverpudlian star of the 1961 film adaptation of A Taste of Honey |
| HAYONWYE | Town of Powys, upriver of Hereford (anag. of 'honey way') (3-2-3) |
| QUEENBEE | The female reproductive leader of a colony of honey-producing apians, essential to the life of the hive (5,3) |
| DYNAMITE | "Get a load of honey bun tonight; I'm speaking of my sweety pie; Only sixty inches high; Every inch |
| BEES | Sounds like a number of grades of honey producers (4) |
| BAKLAVA | Confection of honey and chopped pistachios or walnuts sandwiched between layers of filo pastry (7) |
| DELANEY | Shelagh, author of the 1958 stage play A Taste of Honey (7) |
| TEJ | Kind of honey wine or mead, the national drink of Ethiopia (3) |
| 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) |
| MANUKA | New Zealand tree, the source of nectar for bees producing a prized type of honey |
| VINEGAR | "A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of ____" (Poor Richard's Almanack) |
| 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) |
| APIARY | Source of honey and, going back years, a type of beer |
| SHANGRILA | Drop of honey and bit of lemon put separately into Iberian beverage-paradise! |
