How to configure leiningen to use newest Clojure version for repl started outside of project?

Question

When I start clojure repl for specific project, for leiningen is enough to specify correct clojure version in the concrete project.clj file as described her

Answer 1

according to technomancy on IRC: "repls outside projects are hard coded 
to lein's version of clojure"

Source: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/1035#issuecomment-35927505