2: Instrument making snout feel odd (4,5)
3: Halest hesitater is lost (9)
4: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)
5: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)
6: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)
7: Norse gentleman? Not exactly. (5)
8: Blasts most of eucalypt stumps (5)
12: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)
13: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)
15: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)
16: Horse cart relocates minstrel troupe (9)
17: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)
20: Romantic poet is close to Reagan (5)
21: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)
22: De Bergerac hugged bird on return (5)
23: Short time for the Irish (5)
25: Sounds like a bright child (3).