| SCARLETLETTER | 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring a red "A," with "The" |
| HESTER | Wearer of a red A |
| SCARLET | "The ___", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) |
| LETTER | "The ---", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) (see 11D) |
| EMPTYSET | In maths, the union of A with the ____ is A |
| HESTERPRYNNE | Protagonist of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter (6,6) |
| BIGS | Step up from Triple-A, with "the" |
| GETTY | Cultural attraction in L.A., with "the" |
| THESCARLETLETTER | Nathaniel Hawthorne novel (3,7,6) |
| RUBY | From the Latin meaning "red", a precious gemstone with a lustre known as silk that is also a word used to describe a style of port wine or a variety of grapefruit (4) |
| LANDSEER | Artist who painted 'The Monarch of the Glen', artwork featuring a red deer (8) |
| ATTHEDROPOFAHAT | Frenetically head for that top A with the slightest encouragement (2,3,4,2,1,3) |
| ELMO | ___ at the Zoo (book featuring a red Muppet) |
| WINNIETHEPOOH | Classic novel featuring a bear, a pig, an owl, and a donkey |
| RUFOUS | From the Latin for "red", a ruddy-brown, rust or tawny colour, like that of the coat of a red fox/squirrel (6) |
| JANEEYRE | Charlotte Bronte's Bildungsroman featuring a "red room" symbolic of the titular heroine's entrapment, fear and quest for liberty (4,4) |
| ANNIE | Musical featuring a red-haired orphan (5) |
| OKLAHOMAKID | 1939 Western starring 61-A (with "The") |
| CHARLOTTESWEB | Classic novel featuring a spider and a pig |
| TCMES | 1938 Evelyn Waugh novel featuring a newspaper called the Daily Beast (5) |
