1: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)
2: Learner said it was a huge green monster cooked in gravy. (7)
3: Refusals thwarted goons (2-3)
4: Bore stopped outside ancient city (7)
5: Buried by confused Hindu who took me in. (7)
6: Control staff work collectively (9)
7: Mr. Sharpton's under canvas singing and dancing? (7)
8: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)
14: Optomist rashly to count votes before a form of a negative comes up (9)
16: Asked for quote in 3-D (9)
18: Food provider for tom and two queens (7)
19: Knife to skin head and trim pelt (7)
20: On the way up, the german rats played a leading part (7)
21: Heroin's prepared approaching land (7)
24: Serious changes at the end of a kind of train (5)
25: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)