1: Ban professional writer (9)
2: The bandleader channels energy.(9)
3: Tranquillises extremely senile escorts (7)
4: Famous Quaker drops last Quaker correspondent (9)
5: Melodious vocal rendition of musical composition (5)
6: Give in to clumsy one swallowing vegetables (7)
7: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)
8: Film relay got mixed up (5)
14: Members of the GOP missing note for bartenders (9)
16: Control, coerce, and strengthen (9)
17: Unwelcome visitors oddly unstirred (9)
19: Keeps turning nastier (7)
21: Recognise terrible smell in Vespers for the Dead? (7)
22: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)
23: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)
24: Musical composition pleasing to the ear (5)