Turn to page 171 for the solution to MegaXword 182, and to page 184 for entry details and winners’ names.
ACROSS
1. Cleaned (ship’s deck)
5. Absurd
9. Talisman
12. Witch doctors
16. Identical
17. Stop
18. Garden timepiece
20. Discard
22. Corn husks
23. Supposedly
24. Jewelled crowns
26. Restaurant patrons
27. String up
28. Veep (4,9)
31. Fossil resin
32. Follows
34. Menacing warning
36. Royal acronym (1,1,1)
37. Non-drinker
40. Untruth
