Independent 7099/Phi – Fifteensquared

What one always gets from Phi — sound clueing, much of it very pleasing, a few complete anagrams, and the occasional musical reference (actually only one I think, unusually few).

Across
5	A D JUST ABLE
8	theatricAL DAring — Alan Alda
10	{{punchlin}e}quip
11	BEATITUDES — beat it (due)* s
12	FEEDBACK — d{ance} e{vening} e{very} F{riday}, and (d e e F) is ‘feed’ back, very nice
14	HURDLE — hurled with d relocated
15	MAGNETIC FIELD — (deflecting aim)*
17	S(CR)EED
18	MILLIARD — (rail)rev. in mild
20	D(IS SON)ANCE
22	VEAL — e in (lav)rev. — perhaps the choice of ‘John’ as my pseudonym was less than the best, especially as there is someone else with that name who posts occasionally on the Crossword Centre Message Board
23	S(A G)O
24	ABSOLUTISM — (submit also)*

Down
1	CU(S)PID
2	S(T)UB
3	DE{a}L {r}IGHTFUL
4	DA GUERRE — this chap
6	DEUS EX MACHINA — ex in (amused)* China
7	BLACK DIAMONDS — (minds bad coal {dar}k)*
9	DIE FLEDERMAUS — (surfed emailed)*
13	A BE(R)D ON IAN
16	GO({qu}EASY)ON
19	I(N V IT)E
21	{f}ELLA

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