| BLAKENEY | Champion duo in classic Scarlet Pimpernel (3,5,8) |
| SIRPERCY | Champion duo in classic Scarlet Pimpernel (3,5,8) |
| RIBBONS | Harry Belafonte classic, Scarlet ... |
| PERCYBLAKENEY | The Scarlet Pimpernel, in Baroness Orczy's classic play and novel |
| ORCZY | Baroness ___, novelist born in 1865 who created the Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| WEEDED | Got involved in the plot and ousted the Scarlet Pimpernel, for example (6) |
| EVERYWHERE | Search area for Scarlet Pimpernel (10) |
| NEITHERHERENORTHERE | Where we find the Scarlet Pimpernel? It's immaterial |
| ELUSIVE | The Spanish enrol about 4 like the Scarlet Pimpernel? (7) |
| EMMA | Baroness who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel (4,5) |
| LESLIEHOWARD | Pygmalion and The Scarlet Pimpernel star (6,6) |
| WEED | The limits to well-educated Scarlet Pimpernel (4) |
| ALIAS | The Scarlet Pimpernel, say (5) |
| SPIN | Drive home after Scarlet Pimpernel starts |
| SPIDER | Scarlet Pimpernel's extremely thrown about one creepy-crawly (6) |
| BESOUGHT | Begged to share the Scarlet Pimpernel's fate? |
| WILLOTHEWISP | Is left behind with nothing at The Strand for Scarlet Pimpernel (4-1-3-4) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
