| STIGMA | The scarlet |
| 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) |
| NATHANIEL | Author of the novels The Marble Faun and The Scarlet Letter (9,9) |
| KORDA | First knighted member of the film industry (1942); producer of such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and The Third Man (1949) (5) |
| CHAOSMAGIC | Power that enables the Scarlet Witch to rewrite reality, and a hidden feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| HAWTHORNE | Author of the novels The Marble Faun and The Scarlet Letter (9,9) |
| PIMPERNEL | Baroness Orczy's character played by Richard E Grant in the TV series, The Scarlet ... |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| ELUSIVE | The Spanish enrol about 4 like the Scarlet Pimpernel? (7) |
| 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) |
| REDUCE | Scale down the scarlet second person by the opening ceremony |
| OLSEN | Elizabeth who plays the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| WEEDED | Got involved in the plot and ousted the Scarlet Pimpernel, for example (6) |
| ARIL | Botanical structure such as the mace surrounding nutmeg, ruby "jewel" of a pomegranate pip or the scarlet "berry" cup of a yew seed (4) |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| NERDSPLAINS | Goes into extreme detail about the backstory of the Scarlet Witch, say |
| ELIZABETH | _ Olsen, the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel films (9) |
| HESTERPRYNNE | Protagonist of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter (6,6) |
| PONCEAU | French word for the scarlet red of the corn poppy, hence a dye of vivid rouge colour, like said coquelicot (7) |
