2: Former name for joint audition (3)
3: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)
4: Conservative interrupting nobody for the time being (5)
5: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)
6: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)
7: Sounds like a bright child (3).
9: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)
10: Short line in letter back-fires (5)
12: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)
16: A revolutionary New England state or an Indian state (5)
19: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)
20: Hazardous emanation from river used by a crime boss (5)
22: Start reducing salt? (3)
25: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)