CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,577

Across

1 Get new staff – or get new owners (6,5) 9 Frank is ready to do business (4) 10 Commercial mail for a remote business centre (7,4) 11 Drag minor back (4) 14 Messenger has job getting in beer (7) 16 In an old-fashioned way, please (7) 17 To be readily available, part of index is typeset (5) 18 Singer very keen to retire (4) 19 Bargain crop (4) 20 Toys sold out around end of April (5) 22 Awful deep (7) 23 Somebody’s rubber (7) 24 She’ll be a fool if she comes back (4) 28 Enormously powerful ocean destroyer (6,5) 29 Lacking opener, drain pitcher (4) 30 Confirm new bits are news (4,7)

Down

2 It’s heavenly to play, but there are strings attached (4) 3 Out of gear? (4) 4 Honour a merger of Ben and Noel (7)

5 A parliamentarian’s creating measures in power (4)

6 Fool perhaps having braided hair put up (7)

7 Understood to be arrested (11)

8 Wild world opens around a cat used to wintry weather (4,7)

12 Keeps on the beach, they may be soon liquidated (11)

13 Vehicles drawn up in accordance with the law (11)

15 One-time rising group crack up? (5)

16 Song from little Sarah, piercing in the afternoon (5) 20 Light diet may upset (7) 21 Class of fighters, in the East (7) 25 Obscure blemish (4) 26 Whisky drinkers may say that it’s just a question of time (4)

27 A sign of more to follow (4)