Cryptic crossword clue
A cargo ship transported old boxes 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word SARCOPHAGI

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Crossword Answer definitions

SARCOPHAGI noun
  1. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
  2. The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
  3. A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
  4. An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

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