| PENFRIENDS | People who regularly exchange letters and who have often not met (3,7) |
| PENPAL | Term for an otherwise unknown person, often abroad, with whom one regularly exchanges letters (3,3) |
| READERSHIP | Group of people who regularly peruse a particular newspaper (10) |
| NUDISTS | People who regularly choose not to wear clothes (7) |
| ROTATES | Regularly exchanges broken toaster |
| CORRESPOND | Have similar functions and exchange letters |
| DERBYSHIRE | County in which folk have often dressed well |
| DOWNGRADED | Lowered in status having not met the required standard |
| ENDCREDITS | Actors' lines that are often not heard? |
| BACKMARKER | What you might call somebody who regularly gets lapped. (10) |
| BRAMSTOKER | Author who regularly holidayed in Aberdeenshire, where he began writing 'Dracula' (4,6) |
| BLINDDATE | Social meeting between two people who have not met before (5,4) |
| DIAL | Something people have often been told not to touch |
| CHESHIRECAT | Alice In Wonderland creature that prompted the remark, ' I have often seen a cat without a grin but never have I seen a grin without a cat.' (8,3) |
| EGERIA | Female adviser and I agree to exchange letters |
| ANAGRAM | One horse and another animal to exchange letters in it (7) |
| RYEMEN | Highlanders have often done so, even when sober! (6) |
| ODOURS | Unpleasant aromas that passengers have often reported in trains with retention tanks (6) |
| INOFFENSIVE | "A question I have often asked is, 'What would an ____ political cartoon look like?'" (Salman Rushdie) |
| PHOBIA | Leaders of parliament have often been intentionally arousing fear (6) |
