### Clue: Women in queenly residences accepting open place to learn to use a needle (10)
### Answer: HOUSEWIVES 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Women
 HIVES(the residences of queen bees and the rest of their colonies) **containing**(accepting) [ OU(abbrev. for the Open University, the distance learning institution for undergraduate and postgraduate courses with its main campus in Milton Keynes, UK) + SEW(to use a thread and needle) ].