The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 24038 - October 7, 2008

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Clues Answers
A bookstore's to engage boy to introduce royal poems ASHROPSHIRELAD
All having intelligence in foreign port? ODENSE
Boring into me, start to amputate centre of organ MEDULLA
By some wood, golden bird's endless twittering LOGORRHEA
Cellist packs acceptable clothes CASUALS
Church roofs have to come first LEADON
Cut corner in Beetle, having to cover miles CHAMFER
Cutting off fat SHORTENING
Everyone patient with me today, swimming in a cold sea CASELOAD
Extremely dangerous cold - best for it to be treated FROSTBITE
Feeble people when rebuffed are nervous STEW
Fell out with fairies here ELFLAND
Girl wrongly sent inside: call for this? AMNESTY
Gown and mortarboard, or just mortarboard? HEADGEAR
Clues Answers
Grain some animal took MALT
Hired Jones's partner, heading for nasty disappointment LETDOWN
Lack of resources, wanting a coin in Machu Picchu? INCAPACITY
Left not defeated - British leaving UNEATEN
Love greenery, when right out - it's late OVERDUE
Mean to eat roast, initially hard to chew STRINGY
Mister, a shilling! - heartfelt plea SPRAYER
Old advice about listening equipment that's legally binding REDTAPE
One taken on march up mountain needing heart perhaps PLACARD
Parrots savaged by them? RAPTORS
Sense of optimism for catching fish - decent bit of evidence FEELGOODFACTOR
Son of David, a second-rate Strauss opera that closes early ABSALOM
Such a mate son fussed over SMOTHERED
What's set to explode? GELIGNITE