Possible Clues:

• Extremely important symbol of office minister received
• Half the North makes A1 so seedy
• Start to be half seedy
• M in the middle of 32 down makes this start to be half seedy, perhaps
• Very important, original
• Very important mines worked by a novice
• Cup tie, if lost, will be momentous
• Of beginnings or early developments
• Groundbreaking work of menials?
• Majorly influential