| EMMUSKA | Baroness ___ Orczy ("The Scarlet Pimpernel" author) |
| ORCZY | Baroness ___, 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' author (5) |
| BARONESSES | -- Orczy: author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" et.al. |
| SCARLETPIMPERNEL | Canadian actor Raymond Massey plays the villain Chauvelin in "The ___ ___", the 1934 adventure movie based on the same-named 1905 novel by Baroness Orczy |
| SCARLET | The - Pimpernel ; a Baroness Orczy novel featuring Sir Percy Blakeney (7) |
| PIMPERNEL | 'The Scarlet -', 1905 novel by Baroness Orczy (9) |
| ELUSIVE | The ____ Pimpernel is a book in a Baroness Orczy series (7) |
| THESCARLETPIMPERNEL | Canadian actor Raymond Massey stars in the 1934 movie version of the play and novel by Baroness Orczy: 3 wds. |
| ASHEAFOFBLUEBELLS | 1917 Baroness Orczy novel about the feuds between Royalists and the followers of Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 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) |
| PERCYBLAKENEY | The Scarlet Pimpernel, in Baroness Orczy's classic play and novel |
| BARONESS | Author Orczy, for one |
| MONE | Baroness __, life peer at the centre of the PPE Medpro controversy (4) |
| HALE | Baroness ___, former president of the UK supreme court (4) |
| KORDA | First knighted member of the film industry (1942); producer of such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and The Third Man (1949) (5) |
| EMMA | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4,5) |
| LESLIEHOWARD | Star of the 1934 film The Scarlet Pimpernel (6,6) |
| IDIOCY | Folly? Kinda, in Orczy, oddly obscured (6) |
| ASHTON | Baroness ___, the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy |
| AMOS | Baroness _, Labour Life Peer; Leader of the House of Lords (2003-07) |