The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27509 Crossword Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27509 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Popular novice upstanding in my youth	MINORITY
Popular opening subject of my autobiography, touching story	INVENTION
Puzzle always negative?	NONPLUS
Sappers present	THERE
Scottish hero in defence, brilliant	WALLACE
Scottish queen ruled, perhaps, English admitted	MADELEINE
Secured by ring, second bit of fresh bait	TROLL
Setter's device, one casting spell on our readers?	time switch
Shed, important office by the sound of it?	THROWN
Shipping lanes are visibly affected, not initially heading westward	NAVAL
Sign racket backfiring for Brezhnev, say?	LEONID
Surrounded by rocks only? Wrong	INJUSTICE
Temple erected in support of sweet native American	CHOCTAW
Time-saving preference working	OPERATION
Town sad, I suspect, about old tree	SATINWOOD

Clues	Answers
Black shaded binding is discarded	JETTISONED
Controlled squeezes make gas	RADON
Could girl be in difficulty?	ISSUE
Deep swimmer	BASS
Disaster may last centuries, following destruction	CATACLYSM
Drink inspiring oenophiles, primarily?	PINOT
Ecclesiastic punctual, it's implied?	PRELATE
Extremely hungry, so food's eaten when rotten — now all seems hopeless?	one of those days
Flier: a through train at last	AVIAN
Gathering pace finally, force trial to go ahead	JAMBOREE
Hoodwink flapper	GULL
I gasp on spilling wine, dropping one drink	Singapore sling
Massive loss in the end, heavy defeat	STONKING
More or less on	ABOUT
Novel was liked — where Capote would have put his foot down?	SIDEWALK