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A "young madam" is an expression over here for a teenager showing precocious behaviour.

Indeed Chris - my granny was fond of using it

9a
Impudent time to reduce the stage appearances? (8) ?A?T???S

11d
They come in twos, bashes (5) S???S

Any help appreciated 👍

9a: T for Time plus 3, 4 for "reduce stage appearances". Defn "impudent"

11d: A form of footwear is one of the double definitions.

11 - masturbatory receptacles 😳

'Pull them up Avi'

raffles 🤣 😲

I can imagine the insults: "I'd need a tube ****, you could get by with a thimble"

Thanks to chrise on 19d. As an American solver it's been necessary to assimilate many UK terms, but I'd never seen that one.

She's a proper little madam - as grandma used to say!

The older I get the more I realise how granny influenced me:
WHERE'S MY GLASSES
Don’t panic Gran, I’ve just filled them.

Geeker, in my case it’s WIND**** 😜
Praise is like abuse - self-praise is the praise 🤠

I suppose the Avi reference is unknown to you - check out a Guy Ritchie film called Snatch, from about 25 yrs ago 😳 - might increase your word-store😉