Possible Clues:

• Glibness in benediction
• You'll find this by the ton near Dublin, and a good thing too
• Hope fulfilled? Crosby takes smaller part
• Female ending bedecked in jewellery is given approval
• Benefit provided except in Crosby
• Pre-meal prayer
• Approval from British novelist
• Benefit to a smaller extent in Crosby?
• Grace warbles singing from the heart
• Unfinished game receives not so much approval