| DRONE | Male honey bee; UAV; or, a monotonous speech (5) |
| ICING | A male honey bee? Yes, the doctor is sitting on one (5) |
| QUEEN | Word primarily referring to a regina, but also a "dame" playing card; a gyne honey bee; a large olive; a powerful chess "lady"; a rex cat's female mate; or, any woman of excellence (5) |
| 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) |
| THRUM | (Make a) monotonous sound (5) |
| SMOKE | A by-product of a bonfire or candle that is also the vapour used in apiculture to calm honey bees (5) |
| DRONED | Male honey bees; or, bourdons, buzzes, hums, monotonous speeches or remote-controlled aircraft, that bombilate like the aforesaid "apes" (6) |
| DEBAR | Accessing honey, bee say is shut out (5) |
| STUNG | Elvis "I got ___ by a sweet honey bee" |
| TOKYO | Location of the Ginza Honey Bee Project |
| RHONE | Flower power honey-bees provide (5) |
| DRONES | Male honey bees |
| SINGSONG | A ballad; a jingly verse; a monotonous or chant-like up-and-down intonation; or, a convivial gathering of friends for crooning (8) |
| BALM | An aromatic substance; a fragrant salve; a pleasant odour; a lemonscented herb whose genus, Melissa, means "honey bee" or, anything that comforts, heals, restores or soothes (4) |
| DRONEON | To speak in a monotonous tone (5,2) |
| INTONED | Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting. (7) |
| INSECT | From "to cut", a segmented animal such as a butterfly, dragonfly, fire ant, honey bee, katydid or ladybird (6) |
| SCREED | Monotonous speech |
| FLATLY | In a monotonous way, and at length, interrupting pilot (6) |
| TEDIOUSLY | Energy features in fresh oil study in a monotonous way |
