| VENTED | When Ron, a leading hotelier from Netheravon, went to Dartmouth, he unwound and released all his pent-up tension (6) |
| KAKEMONO | A scroll that can be unwound and used as a hanging for a painting (8) |
| TUBA | Ron, a leading novelist from Braunton, also plays a brass instrument (4) |
| MINDY | Kaling who went to Dartmouth (and gave the graduation speech there in 2018) |
| PANDORA | In Greek mythology, the first woman who opened a box and released all the ills that beset humanity (7) |
| EDITCUTS | Points to revise when Ron leaves uncontrolled destruction (4,4) |
| JUDAS | Adjourns when Ron goes out with the traitor (5) |
| ERA | For a very long time I have been living in Netheravon (3) |
| IRONS | Presses when Ron is about (5) |
| SUDDEN | When Ned came to Dartmouth to visit us, it was all terribly unplanned (6) |
| EYEGLASS | At the beginning of September, Sal moved in with Ron, a head teacher from Tregoney, who is a bit odd-looking -- he has a monocle (8) |
| DEFOE | Journalist, pamphleteer, spy and jack-of-all-trades who stood three days in the pillory for seditious libel, later turning his pen to fiction to write Robinson Crusoe aged 59 (5) |
| BLACKDOG | Let's first go to Dartmouth, and then back to my place near Witheridge (5,3) |
| LEWISCARROLL | His pen name is the anglicized Latin forms of his first and middle names, transposed |
| LADIDA | After three years in Los Angeles, my daughter and I returned to Dartmouth - we found it horribly pretentious (2-2-2) |
| AEROSOL | A substance enclosed in a pressurised can and released in a spray (7) |
| EXHAUST | System in a petrol/diesel vehicle from which CO2 and other gases are expelled and released into the atmosphere (7) |
| GEORGEORWELL | His pen name combines England's patron saint with a river in Suffolk |
| WHITEELEPHANT | What Lee hit with his pen turned out to be more trouble than it was worth |
| DRSEUSS | Author who originally intended his pen name to rhyme with "voice," though Americans pronounced it differently |
