| ORCZY | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4, 5) |
| EMMA | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4,5) |
| NATHANIEL | _ Hawthorne, US author who wrote The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel - - -, American novelist and short story writer who wrote The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| WILLOTHEWISP | Is left behind with nothing at The Strand for Scarlet Pimpernel (4-1'-3-4) |
| WEED | The limits to well-educated Scarlet Pimpernel (4) |
| FUMITORY | From the Latin meaning "smoke of the earth", arable plant with seeds eaten by the turtle dove with those of the scarlet pimpernel, clover, birdsfoot trefoil and chickweed (8) |
| KORDA | First knighted member of the film industry (1942); producer of such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and The Third Man (1949) (5) |
| ELUSIVE | The Spanish enrol about 4 like the Scarlet Pimpernel? (7) |
| OBERON | Actress whose films include The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Dark Angel (5,6) |
| MERLE | Actress whose films include The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Dark Angel (5,6) |
| MONE | Michelle __, baroness who lost the Tory whip in 2022 (4) |
| BRADY | Baroness who appears on The Apprentice (5) |
| EMMUSKA | Baroness ___ Orczy ("The Scarlet Pimpernel" author) |
| PERCYBLAKENEY | Sir ___, the Scarlet Pimpernel (5,8) |
| ALIAS | The Scarlet Pimpernel, say (5) |
| LESLIEHOWARD | Star of the 1934 film The Scarlet Pimpernel (6,6) |
| SCOTLAND | Patricia ---, Baroness who is the current Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations (8) |
| SALEM | Where Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" |
| WEEDED | Got involved in the plot and ousted the Scarlet Pimpernel, for example (6) |
