Epic struggle with this one today. So many unches in the grid!
ACROSS
1 Behold: rugby player in passion play (4,4,2,5) LOOK BACK IN ANGER {LOOK}{BACK}{IN}{ANGER}
9 Unusually large kind of car (6) BUMPER [CD]
10 Violent Mars has people rush to war (4,4) ARMS RACE {MARS*}{RACE}
11 Sitcom family, quintessentially British rogues (8) TROTTERS {
14 It's useful for hacking, chesty spasms (6) SCYTHE*
17 Doctor to ring West End tourist attraction (7,6) DOWNING STREET*
20 Right now, manic child on the edge in the middle of shut-eye (2-2-3-6) UP-TO-THE-MINUTE {UP}{TOT}{HEM}{IN}{
23 My surgical procedure on Dalai Lama ultimately leads to complaint (6) MYOPIA {MY}{OP}{
25 Strapping thing's backside hit hard (4,4) SEAT BELT {SEAT}{BELT}
28 Head of Germany, Europe's troubled conscience (8) SUPEREGO {G
29 I've changed in the nick (6) THIEVE {TH{IVE*}E}
30 Novel clinical relief work in field (4,7,4) COLD COMFORT FARM {COLD}{COMFORT}{FARM}
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2 'Work over, beat up': boxing spelt out essentially (6) OEUVRE {O{
3 Dreamt up a Koons retrospective seen to include bust (5) KAPUT [T]
4 Consent given in Gretna Green (5) AGREE [T]
5 Poet changing yen for krone remains a poet (5) KEATS (-y+k)KEATS
6 Siemens turns out to be a curse (7) NEMESIS*
7 Twitchy, very neurotic primarily? (5) NERVY {VERY+N
8 Staggered around etc, drunkenly getting back in (9) REELECTED {REEL{ETC*}ED}
12 What to do with a car wreck, specifically (2,3) TO WIT {TOW IT}
13 Produce sounds like a fishy collection (5) RAISE (~rays)
15 Position of Gibraltar endlessly the thing under discussion (5) THEME THE ME
16 Columbus is at sea, leaving British behind, in work of Franklin (4,5) SOUL MUSIC {COLUM
17 MD: dictation regularly registers that which has been said (5) DITTO {
18 Appearance of chaps on the radio? (5) GUISE (~guys)
19 Bound, we're told, to give hope (5) TRUST (~trussed)
21 Get ready to lift the elbow (5-2) HEAVE-HO [CD]
22 Sharp cleaver clearing area (6) CLEVER CLE
24 'Phosphorus (Pb)'!? Offer something in excuse! (5) PLEAD {P}{LEAD}
25 Parody sending up France: oops (5) SPOOF {F}{OOPS}<=
26 For example, Colman's factory's contents (5) ACTOR
27 Brusque barrister (5) BRIEF [DD]
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