| MASSEY | Star of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" |
| 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) |
| BARONESSES | -- Orczy: author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" et.al. |
| ORCZY | Baroness ---, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| BLAKENEY | Surname of the Scarlet Pimpernel (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) |
| LESLIEHOWARD | Star of the 1934 film The Scarlet Pimpernel (6,6) |
| 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) |
| WEEDED | Got involved in the plot and ousted the Scarlet Pimpernel, for example (6) |
| EMMUSKA | Baroness ___ Orczy ("The Scarlet Pimpernel" author) |
| PERCYBLAKENEY | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| NEITHERHERENORTHERE | Where we find the Scarlet Pimpernel? It's immaterial |
| EMMA | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4,5) |
| ALIAS | The Scarlet Pimpernel, say (5) |
| BESOUGHT | Begged to share the Scarlet Pimpernel's fate? |
| CYCLAMEN | With rosy-pink flowers from August to September, a tuberous perennial related to primroses, cowslips and the scarlet pimpernel (8) |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| NERDSPLAINS | Goes into extreme detail about the backstory of the Scarlet Witch, say |
