| THEREDFLAG | Socialist song about a scarlet standard (3,3,4) |
| ATANAGERINLOVE | Song about a scarlet bird with a crush? |
| RED | And 11ac Socialist song makes us blush & lose heart (3,4) |
| CHAPFALLEN | Blue bloke like a scarlet woman? |
| RUNNERBEAN | Climbing plant with red flowers and edible pods also called a scarlet runner (6,4) |
| 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 |
| PRYNNE | Hester with a scarlet "A" |
| REDSTAR | A scarlet-fruiting pyracantha ... a Russian symbol (3,4) |
| 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) |
| FLY | The - agaric is a poisonous fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts (3) |
| VERMEIL | French term for silver-gilt or gilt bronze used for candelabra, jewellery, medals, tableware etc; or, a poetic word for a scarlet-red pigment, also known as cinnabar (7) |
| REDMAPLE | Tree with a Scarlet Sentinel cultivar |
| CALDERA | A scarlet resin used up in bowl |
| PIMPERNEL | Sir Percy Blakeney was a scarlet one |
| DAREDEVIL | Was survivor's back concealing a scarlet rash? |
| ANCESTRAL | A scarlet woman's backing out of the family |
| COCHINEAL | A scarlet dyestuff used for colouring food (9) |
| DROPLET | How to make a scarlet scar |
| NERINE | A scarlet or rose-coloured South African flowering plant (6) |
| REDO | Repeat with a scarlet circle (2-2) |
