The first step is to solve the clues literally, making up contextually correct nonsense words about 🐝🐝s. Then, we realize that as in the flavortext, a 🐝🐝 is taking the place of another letter sound in a much less nonsense word. Taking the letters we replace gives us "THREEMUSKY🐝🐝RSGENRE". Once again replacing the 🐝🐝 with something more sensible, we arrive at "THREE MUSKETEERS GENRE", which is the SWASHBUCKLER.
| Clue | Bee Word | Real Word | Replaced Letter Sound |
|---|---|---|---|
| A cooking vessel or plant container filled with 🐝🐝s (6) | BEEPOT | TEAPOT | T |
| Made more like the head of a university department who is a🐝🐝 (11) | DEANBEEERED | DENATURED | H |
| A 🐝🐝 who carries out sudden attacks behind enemy lines (7) | RAIDBEE | RADAR | R |
| The rear of a 🐝🐝, if you were to treat it like a boat (8) | BEESTERN | EASTERN | E |
| A 🐝🐝 who is also a function which retrieves a value without changing it, unlike a mutator (11) | ACCESSORBEE | ACCESSORY | E |
| A large, ceremonial fire made of 🐝🐝s (7) | BEEPYRE | EMPIRE | M |
| A medieval soldier in armor who serves a 🐝🐝 (9) | BEEKNIGHT | UNITE | U |
| The place in which a 🐝🐝 trial is held (8) | BEECOURT | ESCORT | S |
| A 🐝🐝 owned by a bird of the family Corvidae (7) | CROWBEE | CROQUET | K |
| 🐝🐝s who live inside of a wall-mounted timekeeping device (9) | CLOCKBEES | CLOCKWISE | Y |
| 🐝🐝 | 🐝🐝 | 🐝🐝 | 🐝🐝 |
| A walking stick for a 🐝🐝 (7) | BEECANE | ARCANE | R |
| What one might say to a 🐝🐝 to slangily express sympathy, following "that" (8) | SUCKSBEE | SUCCESS | S |
| A 🐝🐝 owned by the Greek god of the sun and medicine (9) | APOLLOBEE | APOLOGY | G |
| A 🐝🐝 who collects money paid to the government each year (6) | TAXBEE | TAXI | E |
| A rubber ring which goes on the wheel of a car, but made of🐝🐝s (7) | BEETIRE | ENTIRE | N |
| A dance move performed by 🐝🐝s in which the dancer thrusts their hips back and shakes their buttocks (8) | BEETWERK | ARTWORK | R |
| The appendages on the foot of a 🐝🐝 while it is in an Islamic place of worship (13) | MOSQUEBEETOES | MOSQUITOES | E |
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