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9a Cell phone drivers corrupted games, essentially (4), 14a Trouble concerning leg when going over tree (8), 24a Two strokes dropped by leader on 8th hole? Employ course guide (10), 7d Dodgy report, arguably lacking introduction (7), and 15d Defamatory Aussie demand for classification possibly picked up (9). The answers look like Ovum, Magnolia, Lighthouse, Unsound, and Libellous, but I can't parse them?

9 middle letters
14 AIL ON GAM reversed

7 GUN SOUND (report) -G
15 LIBEL US sounds like an Aussie saying "LABEL US" (boo.....)

24, EIGHTH + O (hole) + USE (employ) but I don't see how the E becomes an L just yet....

Ah - if you remove 2 strokes of the pen from an E it becomes an L

Thanks, buddy, particularly for explaining how the e becomes an l!