| ORCZY | Baroness ---, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| BARONESSES | -- Orczy: author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" et.al. |
| 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) |
| MASSEY | Star of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" |
| BLAKENEY | Surname of the Scarlet Pimpernel (8) |
| EASYA | 2010 Emma Stone reimagining of The Scarlet Letter (4,1) |
| MERLE | Actress whose films include The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Dark Angel (5,6) |
| ALIAS | The Scarlet Pimpernel, say (5) |
| NATHANIEL | ____ Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel _, American author of The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| NERDSPLAINS | Goes into extreme detail about the backstory of the Scarlet Witch, say |
| EMMUSKA | Baroness ___ Orczy ("The Scarlet Pimpernel" author) |
| EMMA | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4,5) |
| LESLIEHOWARD | Star of the 1934 film The Scarlet Pimpernel (6,6) |
| ADULTERY | Focus of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| HESTER | Miss Prynne of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| DEMI | Moore of 'The Scarlet Letter' |
| RED | Color of the Scarlet Witch's magic |
