| PIMPERNEL | Anagallis arvensis or scarlet ... (9) |
| BOG | UK name for Anagallis tenella (3,9) |
| EXANTHEMA | A skin eruption or rash occurring in measles or scarlet fever |
| VERMILION | Chinese-red or scarlet colour of cinnabar, "fire-headed" flycatchers, garnets, holly berries, jewel-like pomegranate arils, poinsettia bracts, robins' breasts, rubies, St Nicholas's bishop's robes or |
| GREATSEAL | Chief signet of the Crown on official documents, green, blue or scarlet (5,4) |
| MUSHROOM | Word, possibly from "moss", for a rapidly growing mycological body such as a cep, morel, puffball or scarlet elf cup; or, an upstart/person who suddenly ascends or crops up (8) |
| CHARLOCK | The wild mustard Sinapis arvensis (8) |
| PINKS | Flowers in the genus Dianthus such as carnations or sweet williams; or, scarlet coats of huntsmen (5) |
| GERANIUM | From Greek for "crane", a plant with seedpods reminiscent of cranes' bills; a pelargonium; or, the pink, red or scarlet colour of many cultivated varieties of the aforesaid flower (8) |
| RED | Crimson or scarlet, e.g. |
| FEVER | Can be yellow or scarlet (5) |
| AVENGER | Black Widow or Scarlet Witch |
| FLAMINGO | Blooming old pink or scarlet bird! (8) |
| IBIS | Wader that may be sacred or scarlet (4) |
| BIND | The wild plant Convolvulus arvensis is more commonly referred to as ___weed (4) |
| SKYLARK | The bird Alauda arvensis, noted for singing while hovering at a great height |
| LARK | Any small ground-dwelling songbird of the family Alaudidae, e.g. the common Eurasian Alauda arvensis (4) |
| REDTOP | Any British tabloid characterised by a rubric or scarlet masthead (3-3) |
| REDHEAT | Term for the temperature at which something is so warm that it glows with a flame-orange or scarlet colour (3,4) |
| HYPONYM | More specific word whose meaning is included in that of another, as lily to flower or scarlet to red (7) |
