| FUNNELWEBSPIDER | Pen friend blew us away, it's venomous (6-3,6) |
| SECLUDEDLY | Clyde led us away, well hidden (10) |
| SCORPION | An arachnid with a pair of large nippers and a tail noted for its venomous sting (8) |
| COBBLEDTOGETHER | Pen friend suffered anguish to win female? That's ill-conceived! (7,8) |
| EXCHANGELETTERS | How pen friends make anagrams (8,7) |
| IMPALA | I'm a linked pen friend, resident in Africa (6) |
| PRESENCEOFMIND | Pen-friend comes running, showing composure (8,2,4) |
| MATELOT | Sailor has pen friend exchange (7) |
| SHEEPDOG | One's best pen friend? (8) |
| FOREIGN | Pen friend perhaps working for a newspaper (7,13) |
| CORRESPONDENT | Pen friend perhaps working for a newspaper (7,13) |
| COB | Business with British pen friend? |
| CYGNETS | Possibly they will be pen-friends in future (7) |
| REELEDOFF | Back always taken away, it's said, without difficulty (6,3) |
| PATENT | In no hurry to give one away, it's plain (6) |
| TURNEDOUT | ...gone away, it's transpired (6,3) |
| MATAI | Coniferous tree made appealing, taking away its tops (5) |
| SPOIL | Give away its final twist, say |
| TREASURE | Club official giving away its ultimate prize |
| SCHLIEMANN | In 1873, a cache of gold and other artefacts, called Priam's Treasure, is "discovered" and smuggled away. (Its authenticity is later disputed.) Three years earlier the same archaeologist excavated for |
