Possible Clues:

• Darling girl's thanksgiving for food
• Elegance; blessing
• Preprandial words
• "__ under pressure": guts, to Hemingway
• Pre-meal blessing
• Old batsman observed before lunch?
• Doctor of Gloucestershire's good with people
• Elegance of old cricketer
• Cricketer offering a few words at the dinner?
• Meal-time prayer