Can anyone here explain an answer for me please:-)

[Beatrice35]

Why is 18 across Stately? 18) Allowed to return home during visit at this home?(7) Know about a Stately home of course, yet want to understand the whole clue- helps me with further cryptics. Many thanks in advance for the explanation:-) Bea ;-)

[Lie-in King]

18a Sta-tel-y - 'let' (allowed, returning=back) (in) 'Stay' (visit)

[Beatrice35]

Bless you Lie-in-King Muchas gracias mi amigo :-) Many thanks my friend :-) All makes perfect sense now! Sometimes have the right answers yet do not know fully how arrive at them, yet, still learning with cryptics.
Have a fabulous weekend Lie-in-King :-)
su amiga, Bea :-)

[Lie-in King]

Happy to help...

Hope your weekend is peaceful - be well :-)

[pbeach]

Bea if you had checked in on Big Dave's blog, all the answers for the Sat crossword were printed and published on Fri Morning. Seems CluedUp (online) released the prize crossword a day early, by accident.

[BigDave44]

Hello Auntie Bea

I decided to withdraw the answers until next Thursday.

Leave me a comment on the blog, and I can get in touch via email (no-one else will know your email address, just me, they won't even see your comment):

http://bigdave44.com/contact/

[Beatrice35]

BigDave- Really want to believe you yet nervous that my name /email address may slip into the wrong hands ( not yours) as there are some seriously unbalanced individuals on here AB. So you fill in the contact details on your page + no one else can see them?! Sorry Dave for sounding non trusting, yet, once bitten twice shy. Have some great friends via a gardening website yet with that was certain that no one else had my details as there was a facility to send a private message on there. Pbeach- have finished the cyrptic crossword now + finished the GK's all by self. Would not want to look at a whole grid of answers- that is like cheating in an exam. Like to stretch brain. Big hugs to you all, Bea :-)