County whose administrative centre is Exeter (5)

I believe the answer is:

devon

(Other definitions for devon that I've seen before include "Raleigh's county" , "Clotted-cream county" , "part of England?" , "County in SW England" , "English county" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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