| PIMPERNEL | Sir Percy Blakeney was a scarlet one |
| BESOUGHT | Prayed, as Sir Percy Blakeney was said to? |
| RISKED | Cloaked in scarlet, one's king is imperilled |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma ___, Hungarianborn British author who wrote a series of novels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| SCARLET | The - Pimpernel ; a Baroness Orczy novel featuring Sir Percy Blakeney (7) |
| KEN | A forename of Sir Percy Blakeney (3) |
| THESCARLETPIMPERNEL | Novel featuring Sir Percy Blakeney (3,7,9) |
| SCARLETPIMPERNEL | In literature, the pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney |
| THESCARLET | Fictional character Sir Percy Blakeney is better known as ... Pimpernel (3,7) |
| PAINTEDLADY | Name, with an onus on multicolouredness, as if brushed or dipped in a palette of pigments, for a thistle butterfly, a tattooed woman, a scarlet "prairie-fire" American wildflower or a variegated gladi |
| PIMPERNELS | Sir Percy Blakeney's simpler pen components? |
| BLAKENEY | Name the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy ... (8) |
| ATANAGERINLOVE | Song about a scarlet bird with a crush? |
| DAREDEVIL | Was survivor's back concealing a scarlet rash? |
| PRYNNE | Hester with a scarlet "A" |
| REDSTAR | A scarlet-fruiting pyracantha ... a Russian symbol (3,4) |
| TERRY | ___-Thomas was Sir Percy WareArmitage in the 1965 movie, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (5) |
| SPENDER | Name the Australian diplomat who was the president of the International Court 1964-67, Sir Percy ... (7) |
| MARTINDWYER | Jockey who rode 2006 Derby winner Sir Percy |
| PINK | Fragrant flower in the genus Dianthus; a colour with shades including blush, coral and rose; or, a scarlet jacket worn by some fox-hunters (4) |