| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author who wrote about the swashbuckling adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| SCARLET | The ___ Pimpernel: alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney in a 1905 novel (7) |
| DONTMAKEWAXES | Bad advice for the SC Johnson company? |
| BITTER | German marque behind cars like the SC and CD (6) |
| ARAMIS | Companion of Athos and Porthos as one of the swashbuckling trio, The Three Musketeers (6) |
| SCARABS | Core muscles in the Palmetto State? |
| SOUTHCAROLINATV | Media in the Palmetto State? |
| SCAREAWAY | Basement access in the Palmetto State? |
| ERROL | Flynn, the swashbuckling film hero |
| FAIRBANKS | US actor best known for the swashbuckling roles he played in silent films, and, perhaps, not so well known for the trips he made to Mallorca in the 1950s to visit his fellowactor Errol Flynn (7,9) |
| DOUGLAS | US actor best known for the swashbuckling roles he played in silent films, and, perhaps, not so well known for the trips he made to Mallorca in the 1950s to visit his fellowactor Errol Flynn (7,9) |
| SCARLETPIMPERNEL | In literature, the pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney |
| KEN | A forename of Sir Percy Blakeney (3) |
| ALLINGHAM | Author who wrote about the fictional sleuth Albert Campion in her novels including Tiger in the Smoke, The Beckoning Lady and The Mind Readers (9) |
| RANSOME | Author who wrote about the holiday sailing adventures of a group of children in his Swallows and Amazons series of 12 books (7) |
| GRAHAME | Author who wrote about the River Bank, Wild Wood and Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of the author who wrote about characters including Alice, Dinah, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare (7) |
| SPENDER | Name the Australian diplomat who was the president of the International Court 1964-67, Sir Percy ... (7) |
| PIMPERNEL | The Scarlet ..., aka Sir Percy Blakeney (9) |
| THESCARLET | Fictional character Sir Percy Blakeney is better known as ... Pimpernel (3,7) |
