Oh no! Someone's jostled the nest, and the bees are all abuzz. Can you help them find their places in the hive again, and figure out what message they have for the interloper
In this cryptic crossword, the down entries have been merged together, and for each column you are provided two or three clues (the column clue lists are given from left to right for convenience). Solving those clues and putting the answers one after another in the given order will let you fill the grid and discover where the bees belong.
DOWN
14 College grad clutches first big song collection
14 Mixed loan in place to lie
11 Three people organized riot
11 A brute's thus backwards
8 Eight in Rome's limitless underside
8 Which person's an international distributor of vaccines?
8 A famous Brazilian, forward near my bananas
6 Primps before printing measurements
6 Blam! Broke a symbol of calm
4 Talent starts some kids in learning languages
4 Eccentric ranter straying from the norm
4 Unique covering: a partial crown
2 Change to a rare faucet component
2 Characteristic spirit of budget hostel
1 Folksy possessive from layering
1 Against what Spanish relic?
1 Angered, agitated, incensed
3 Uptempo emotions displaying verse
3 A city, initially in Allegheny County
3 Distant but not real, e.g. :yewthink:
5 Listlessness ends now, no unhappiness inhabits heads
5 Watery many-headed monster: slay one to make none
5 Tails first: Inside information for salamanders
7 Silver finish is on a schedule
7 Branch club horde
10 Twerk on broken communications system
10 It's charged following love god's deterioration
13 A video game protagonist; alternatively, me
13 Top level tacit change
17 All-inclusive upscale hotel shuttle
17 No alternative to views without opening
SLANTED DOWN
2 Even facedown, it takes ages
3 Sleep inhibitor? No, it's a system of arithmetic
4 Peaceful, dry Nebraska
6 According to sales agent, send it back
8 Hockey player in sorrow
12 Virus from country without any
14 For instance, a painting of headless deer
16 Anagram "unramified" to reveal a fused Egyptian god
18 Without volume, declare a woman's name
19 It's not neutral following loss for football player
20 After commencement: Patty, Esq.
21 It might get picked around metal
22 One recalled an ambient musician
23 Musician's tools sound like words on some headphones
26 Cherish second half of individual's story
27 Ashley's savior is back for Christmas
28 Prime dicey conditions that are bad for walking
29 Loathe covering second mining boon
31 Ore broken above, poetically
32 Reportedly, the place for sport
35 A long time baseball statistic
36 Normalcy conceals evil from France
38 A Fields medallist's way
39 A hat: something famously from Kentucky
41 Chairman of Gamma Ophiuchi
SLANTED UP
4 For instance, oddly shaky
9 Eggs left out of position
14 Above one shirt
15 Stand around right where one can build a house?
23 Tribe corrected a poorly-trained dog, perhaps
24 Beginning in plain trouble
25 Boundary of endless frost
30 Losing feathers
33 Loud cartoon: girl's a primate, not small
34 Sparkling wine brought around the first part of a birth announcement
35 Egg website: regularly crap
37 Once more, a nearly endless week starts
38 A three-pointer service item, sounds like
40 Author said, "correct!"
42 In turmoil, you're accusing me?!
43 Ugh, a Reddit post for a Carribean island
44 Hey! Leave a Montana sapphire
45 Massachusetts houses a badger home
46 Does, say, one case oddly, gets out of rhythm