### Clue: across. Difficult situation in Stoke Poges churchyard, reportedly? (4,4)
### Answer: GREY AREA 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Difficult situation
 **Homophone of**(…, reportedly) "Gray area"(what you might call the churchyard of the Stoke Poges church that poet Thomas Gray attended at the time of his writing Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard).