Possible Clues:

• Miss sent in a spin by your old man?
• One insect hiding in edges of tussocky grass
• The first sort of test in old solver's book
• It set up a test on extremely hardy grass
• Man's name; grass
• New Testament epistle addressee
• Adapted to myth about one man
• Time short — love your old man
• See 21
• Skip over Biblical version of your New Testament book