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Good morning, Rusty!
It is a lovely day here, too!
Only 5C, so a tad chilly as yet, though.
My daughter eats between the finish of work, and the start of her teaching session!
She would be starving were she to wait until she reached home!
She got home to find that the nursery thought that YB was developing chicken pox!
( Chicken pox is rampant in the nursery!)
So my daughter is working from home today with a spotty child on hand.......
I have yet to hear from her as to whether it is indeed chicken pox!
I have no specific plans for today, so will play it as it comes......
The crossword seems hard?

Good afternoon, Elle!
Lucky your daughter can work at home!
Could well be chicken pox!
I thought it was a good puzzle, though 7d is a new word to me, it was easily gettable, given the clue.
Have you finished it?

Good afternoon, Rusty!
My daughter can work from home whenever she wishes, but usually only chooses to do so for one day a week.
But the flexibility is handy should one of the children be ill.
We are all hoping that this is indeed chicken pox, and then it will be out of the way.... BB having had it a few years ago.
No, I haven't managed to finish the crossword!
I am finding it very difficult.
I have put it aside, and returned to it off and on, but I rather think I have shot my bolt!
My favourites are 14a: "unauthorised", and 22a: "Icarus", and 13d: painstaking
Yes, "elt" is a new word for me, too.
I only know it in capital letters..... ELT - English Language Teaching.
But Chambers tells me "elt" is dialect for a young sow.
Easy enough to arrive at from the clue, though.
I am just about to take out the dog.......glorious sunshine!

Hello, Elle!
I'm wondering where you are stuck in your puzzle?
Could it be 1a? "Gle B es"? A "glee" is a song.
The Prince in 19d was mentioned several times in "Chespeake", if you remember, in connection with Marston Moor.
That's a good hint!
It has became duller here.
But it is dry and slightly cooler.
Time for my tea, now!

Hi, Rusty!
I'm stuck in lots of places, Rusty!
Yes, 1a was one of them.....I was thinking of "see" for "ecclesiastical grounds"!
I was way off beam!
( Mind you, I think that quite a good response?)
But I'd got "Rupert" for 19d....no problem with that one!
The others that I cannot do are 4d,12a, 17a,16d, and 18d.
I told you there is a lot!
Fresh air and exercise did not help!

Hello, Elle!
That is quite a few!
Away we go!
4d, is a French word used in heraldry, "pass ant".
12a, There have been several of these in history, I believe.
"Antipope". "a n(new) ti Pop e". Tie is relationship?
17a, I have "miniaturists"?
16d, Hero is "lion", "1 bat" (No 1 cricketer) giving drink "libation".
18d, is "reduce", Cut grass is "ree(d)", bird except for the tail is "duc(k)".
I'm surprised you did not get some of these, Elle?

Rethink, Elle!
18 Cut is "reduce".
And take the tail of ree(d) and "duc(k)"
Is that better?

Hi, Rusty!
Thank you for your patience...I am sorry, but I did tell you that there were a lot I couldn't do!
I have followed your explanations...but I am afraid that I just couldn't see them before for myself.
Sorry, but you have given me 5d, though, not 4d....I have the answer for 5d, which is "passant"
4d is S?B?E?A?T
I do not know this?
I think the parsing for 18d - now that I know the answer! - is
"reduced " = "cut" (def)
reed - grass
with "duc(k)" inside.
I had tried hard and done all the clues that I could understand.......

Hello, Elle!
Ah, yes!
That's the correct parse for "reduced"!
Sorry, this is 4, "subtenant".
Not sure of the parse, though.
Is a subtenant a "letter" from a "letter"?
Or a renter from a renter, if you get my meaning?
And legally controlled? Unsure!
You have done well again, Elle!
I am looking forward to see how you get on with the Latin puzzle on Saturday!

Hi, Rusty!
I haven't "done well", Rusty!
In fact, I've done very badly!
Today 's puzzle is quite out of my league... far beyond my understanding!
I guess one cannot win them all!
Re 4d......
How did you arrive at "subtenant"?
Yes, I suppose......two "letters"... one 'letter' lets to a 'tenant' who then lets to a "subtenant"?
I'm not sure about the "legally controlled" - I think it is "illegal" to sublet?
This is a tad confusing, is it not?
( Let's not talk about Latin.....I'm not doing very well with "English"!)