| DOONE | Lorna ___, Richard Blackmore's romance of Exmoor (5) |
| LORNA | and 51ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| DEVON | With two coastlines, county which contains the National Parks of Dartmoor and of Exmoor and five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty including the Blackdown Hills (5) |
| SOWER | Farmhand and pig on edges of Exmoor (5) |
| RUINS | 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh subtitled A Romance of the Near Future (4,5,3,5) |
| ELSIE | "A Romance of Destiny", a novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes (5,6) |
| LORNADOONE | "A Romance of Exmoor," 1869 |
| RANDA | Post-WWIII teen romance of 1971, Glen and ___ |
| TRENT | The Romance of Helen ___" |
| AROSE | Blackmore's Night "Ghost of ___" |
| KILLERWHALE | Confused hillwalker on top of Exmoor finds large marine mammal! (6,5) |
| LOVEAMONGTHE | 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh subtitled A Romance of the Near Future (4,5,3,5) |
| VENNER | "A Romance of Destiny", a novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes (5,6) |
| MORRISDANCE | In which hobby-horse rids romance of any change (6-5) |
| ROEDEER | I spotted a wild doe right in the middle of a field on the outskirts of Exmoor -- it has a red summer coat that turns greyish in the winter (3,4) |
| MOTORMEN | Heart of Exmoor, endless bother for drivers |
| REENTERED | Ten deer having scampered around edges of Exmoor went in again (9) |
| APHORISM | Write saying Gold is stocked by a pub West of Exmoor (8) |
| ORGANISER | One planning newspaper lives on the fringes of Exmoor (9) |
