☞ Turn to page 157 for the solution to MegaXword 189, and to page 168 for entry details and winners’ names.
ACROSS
1. Abducts
5. Warlord
9. Dame Nellie …
12. Serving (soup)
16. Elicit
17. Scientist, … Newton
18. Equate
20. Humiliated
22. Squirrel away
23. Scattered
24. Milkmaid’s hat
26. Gender discrimination
27. Twitch
28. Cul-de-sac (4-3,6)
31. Unfamiliar
32. O2
34. Individual
36. The plebs, …
