Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 21st January 2023

There are 33 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 21st January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	The Water-Babies author who coined the word “pteridomania”, the Victorian craze for ferns, still reflected in the scroll pattern embossed on custard cream biscuits	KINGSLEY
AAcross 5:	Said to be lovely or rosy when all is well, parterres planted with features such as flower-beds, herbaceous borders, lawns, orchards, potagers, shrubberies and topiaries
AAcross 9:	Energy transfer measured in joules; a creation such as a book, musical composition or piece of embroidery, sewing etc; or, a structure such as a wall, built as part of a fortification
AAcross 14:	A coverall of a chef, cobbler, cook, farrier or potter, for example, tied at the back; or, a similar garment, such as a girl’s pinafore worn over a dress, or that of a bishop or Freemason
AAcross 15:	A bar-like fitment/top over which business is conducted in a bank, cafe or shop; the void in an “O” that doesn’t print; or, any one of a set of discs used in a board game or in tiddlywinks	COUNTER-
AAcross 16:	A public performance by a soloist or duettists in a programme of music; an enumeration or listing of connected facts, figures, events or names; or, a narration of a story
AAcross 17:	A fry of a freshwater fish with a rainbow species, sometimes caught via a method of “tickling”
AAcross 18:	Wonderland character whose name is given to a style of satin or padded velvet hairband popularised by Sloane Rangers in the 1980s	ALICE
AAcross 19:	Players’ turns in chess or draughts; the various ways that the pieces are transferred in said games; changes of houses or offices; or, acts initiating plans or processes
AAcross 20:	A sign or symbol; a coin-like disc used as a substitute for money in a slot machine; a memento; or, a voucher exchanged for a book
AAcross 21:	Purl- or zari-like silk yarn wound with gilded wire for embroidery or weaving; or, a wild flower in the buttercup family with slender yellow roots resembling said strand	GOLD THREAD
AAcross 24:	A game of chance named after a corrupted form of “pharaoh”, a figure represented on a playing card that evolved into the king of hearts
AAcross 26:	Cellular medulla in the stems of dicotyledonous plants; the similar spongy white mesocarp of an orange; a feather’s interior; or, by extension, the crux or essence of something
AAcross 28:	Systematic lists of books, paintings or resources in collections, exhibitions, libraries etc; or, retailers’ brochures/magazines detailing items for sale by means of mail order
AAcross 31:	Racecourse near Windsor that hosts an annual royal meeting featuring a stakes named in honour of its founder, Queen Anne
AAcross 33:	Luxuriant type of biodiverse humid pluvial ecosystem, sometimes described as nature’s pharmacy
AAcross 33:	Luxuriant type of biodiverse humid pluvial ecosystem, sometimes described as nature’s pharmacy
AAcross 35:	A pantry staple of milled grain without raising agent with which to make pancakes, roux, soda bread, tealoaves or Yorkshire puddings	PLAIN FLOUR
AAcross 38:	A close-flying flock of game birds; or, the colour of “Betty” teapots, cappuccino, LBBs, skippers, smoky quartz or umber
AAcross 39:	Based on the Latin for “white-robed people”, due to the white togas worn by ancient Romans in elections, a word for applicants/nominees
AAcross 40:	A discovery of something valuable or of archaeological interest
AAcross 42:	From the Latin for “twelfth part” and sharing its origin with “ounce”, a measure equal to 1/12 of a foot
AAcross 44:	Patterns of lines radiating from light sources; or, periods of intense galactic activity involving the formation of stellar objects
AAcross 47:	Schoolmasters/mistresses; compact masses of cabbage or lettuce leaves; frothy tops of pints of beer; or, the rounded ends of pins
AAcross 50:	Author of a tale of rabbits’ survival which he set around the chalk hills of Watership Down
AAcross 51:	Old English word originally referring to a hill or a rock, later a visible mass of condensed fog or frozen crystals floating in the air
AAcross 52:	From the Greek for “written with one’s own hand”, word for a person’s handwritten manuscript, penmanship, script or signature
AAcross 54:	Italian painter who, with his studio, executed the cartoons for the Acts of the Apostles series of tapestries
AAcross 55:	French word for a large Provençal country house/manor, or for a fortified medieval town in SW France
AAcross 56:	The “hunter” constellation that includes Alnilam the “string of pearls”, Bellatrix the “female warrior” and Melissa the “shining one”
AAcross 57:	Meaning “trunk stripped of its boughs”, a subterranean stem of a crocus, crocosmia, cyclamen, freesia gladiolus or meadow saffron, e.g.
AAcross 58:	From the Latin for “sharer, partner”, a king’s wife or a queen’s husband; a ship accompanying another; or, a family of instruments, such as viols, playing together
AAcross 59:	An alphabetical list, brief dictionary or clavis of words peculiar to a specific field of knowledge
DDown 1:	From the German for “strength”, tough wrapping paper for bouquets, grocery bags, parcels etc
DDown 2:	County home to Sandringham and the halls of Hindringham, Holkham, Houghton and Hoveton
DDown 3:	A name given to the gem aventurine due to its red and metallic chatoyant flecks which reflect the light
DDown 4:	An intaglio printmaking technique practised by Dürer and Burgkmair and mastered by artists including Piranesi and Rembrandt
DDown 6:	A force such as electromagnetism, gravity or magnetism; or, a place of interest that draws visitors
DDown 7:	— cri, meaning “last cry”, French for the latest fashion or last word
DDown 8:	From the Latin meaning “nourish”, a member of a healthcare profession founded by Florence Nightingale
DDown 10:	One of the eponymous heroines in a series of romance novels by Jilly Cooper that includes Bella, Emily, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence	OCTAVIA
DDown 11:	Rural Oxfordshire village, site of William Morris’s former home, after which he named his private press	KELMSCOTT
DDown 12:	A ship’s floor timber; a spoke of a boat’s wheel; or, a step of a ladder
DDown 13:	Word for a highwayman in the 18th century that later came to denote a cheat, now a rascal
DDown 20:	From the Latin word “papyrus” due to its use as a wick, a candle in Anglo-Saxon times, later a thin waxed spill; or, a gradual narrowing
DDown 22:	Word for a connection or secret love affair that derives from a French cookery term meaning “to bind”
DDown 23:	Word for an augury drawn from observing birds originally, later any favourable omen or prognostic
DDown 25:	A hook on a stick for landing a fish; a nautical spar; a spur of a gamecock; or, old slang for a flat or a house
DDown 27:	A barrel-shaped Japanese drum producing sounds of up to 130 dB	TAIKO
DDown 29:	Small peach-like fruit known to the Romans as Malum praecocum, or “apple that ripens early”
DDown 30:	Data/file transfers from one computer or device to another
DDown 32:	Style of short-sleeved midriff-baring embellished or embroidered bodice worn with a sari or skirt
DDown 34:	Oxford University slang for a state of anxiety or panic; a musty or smoky smell; or, a soulful style of dance music with syncopated basslines and a strong rhythmic groove
DDown 36:	Journeys on bikes, broomsticks, horses, waves, whirlwinds etc; bridlepaths through woods; or, bumper cars, rollercoasters and other fairground amusements
DDown 37:	Fruit- and vegetable-puréeing appliance with a glass goblet
DDown 38:	From an obsolete French phrase meaning “at random”, a word for fancy goods, knick-knacks, miscellaneous old curios and other treasured odds and ends of ornamental value	BRIC-A-BRAC
DDown 41:	Bun- or cockernony-like arrangements of hair worn in knots, rolls or twists at napes of necks
DDown 43:	A former word for a rabbit hole; a primitive type of bridge built from planks laid on piles of stones; the tongue of a bell; or, a wooden contrivance for scaring birds
DDown 45:	Calisson- or lozenge-shaped parallelogram known as a diamond due to its resemblance to said shape represented on a playing card
DDown 46:	Surname of the literary siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell
DDown 48:	A genus of fungi that includes the blusher, death cap, destroying angel, or fool’s mushroom, fly agaric, grisette and panther cap
DDown 49:	Forename of the author of The Happy Prince and Other Tales
DDown 51:	Short name of an instrument often ornamented with purfling and a scroll like its relation, the violin
DDown 52:	Song for solo voice in the da capo or cabaletta style, for example
DDown 53:	Term of endearment which alludes to the sweetness of a nectar-derived of the same name