| PIMPERNEL | 'The Scarlet ___ ' |
| LETTER | "The Scarlet ___" |
| TIDE | "The Scarlet ___" by Alison Krauss |
| IBIS | "The Scarlet ___" |
| MACAW | Large yellow, red and blue Neotropical parrot, the scarlet _ (5) |
| CLAW | 1944 Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film, The Scarlet ____. |
| 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) |
| NATHANIEL | Author of the novels The Marble Faun and The Scarlet Letter (9,9) |
| KORDA | First knighted member of the film industry (1942); producer of such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and The Third Man (1949) (5) |
| CHAOSMAGIC | Power that enables the Scarlet Witch to rewrite reality, and a hidden feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| HAWTHORNE | Author of the novels The Marble Faun and The Scarlet Letter (9,9) |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| 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) |
| REDUCE | Scale down the scarlet second person by the opening ceremony |
| OLSEN | Elizabeth who plays the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| WEEDED | Got involved in the plot and ousted the Scarlet Pimpernel, for example (6) |
| ARIL | Botanical structure such as the mace surrounding nutmeg, ruby "jewel" of a pomegranate pip or the scarlet "berry" cup of a yew seed (4) |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
