9  Crime's a never-ending issue (5)

10 See 2 Down

11 See 2 Down

12 Green beans, topped, tailed, and cooked around 4 (5)

13 Gets round ban - it's outrageous (7)

15 School lesson? Small boy playing truant on behalf of stupid individual (7)

17 Choppers support model hospital (5)

18 Enjoy Mardi Gras, to an extent (3)

20 A small West Indian plantation tree (5)

22 Good old guy finally returned actor's dairy product (7)

25 Fat Queen's pantries (7)

26 Stood for Parliament, ultimately average to begin with (5)

27 See 2 Down

29 Standard regeneration includes new beginning (3,6)

30 John Lennon's No.1 in college (5)

 2/14/10/11/27                     26d's revolutionary premise: "Rise up, chums! A ghost came up to free continent!" (1,7,2,8,6 - 3,7,2,9)

 3  Insect bite coming up (4)

 4  Freed from indebted tenancy? (8)

 5  Tennis player at the fringes of her sport works intensively (6)

 6  Stratospherically excited? (2,2,3,3)

 7  Small vehicle - go slow? (6)

 8  Call mountain dog (4)

14 See 2

16 Wordplay is hard: came across name hidden in sentence (10)

19 Orwell's source of wealth? (4,4)

21 Forecasts stormy rain, at first: depict onset of storm (8)

23 Covers top of dessert in spun sugar (6)

24 Court volunteers first: independent conservative's plan (6)

26 Thinker: "End of capitalism near?" Not half wrong! (4)

28 Instruments, you think, have various ends (4)