Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 4th February 2023

There are 30 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 4th February 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	With woody fruits or strobili formerly called pineapples, trees such as those in the genus Araucaria araucana, dubbed “monkey puzzles” by barrister Charles Austin during a planting ceremony in 1834
AAcross 12:	Portrayed with purloining thrushes in a pattern designed by William Morris and with leaves represented on the coronets of dukes, earls and marquesses, fruits or “fraises” often sold in punnets
AAcross 13:	French word for “hobby-horse” that, following its random selection from the pages of a dictionary using a paperknife, was given as the name of a nihilistic art movement co-founded by Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara
AAcross 14:	With a name similar to that of the blackberry bush or a variety of cooking apple, a chaffinch-like bird, known regionally as cock o’ the north, furze chirper and tartan back
AAcross 15:	From the Latin for “apple” and “cider”, marc-like pulpy remains of said fruit when pressed to make the aforementioned perry-like drink
AAcross 16:	A statement of facts; a news bulletin; a teacher’s assessment of a pupil’s deportment and scholarship; or, the loud echoing sound of an explosion or gunfire
AAcross 17:	Bureaus, davenports, escritoires, secretaires and other such writing tables; pairs of cellists/violinists; said instrumentalists’ orchestral positions; or, the music stands they share
AAcross 19:	A cereal grass with grains traditionally fed to racehorses to gee them up; literary word for a straw of said plant as a shepherd’s pipe; or, a pastoral poem generally
AAcross 20:	Ormolu-like auric leaf applied to illuminated manuscripts, panel paintings and picture frames, figuratively removed from gingerbread when destroying an illusion
AAcross 21:	From the Latin for “tent, stage”, a landscape’s natural picturesque features; or, theatrical back-cloths, flats, slides etc representing such
AAcross 24:	Believed by the Roman’s to have been abundant in British rivers, hence one of the motives for their invasion, lustrous gems created within the shells of mussels and oysters
AAcross 26:	Word originally meaning to cook before an open fire, later to cook (meat or vegetables) in an oven
AAcross 29:	One of the “mother sauces” of French cuisine, along with béchamel, hollandaise, tomate and velouté
AAcross 31:	Meaning “yellow”, part of a bird’s egg surrounded by the white
AAcross 33:	Word that links with “puppy” for the archaic game nineholes or “bee” for the insect whose genus Bombus means “booming” or “buzzing”
AAcross 35:	Author of the novel for children Carrie’s War, based on siblings evacuated to a Welsh mining village during the Second World War	BAWDEN
AAcross 36:	From the Latin for “song, word”, a long grandiloquent poem celebrating heroic deeds; or, any adventure or tale of comparable proportions
AAcross 37:	A ship’s bakery or pantry where its “jack of the dust” prepared/stored hardtacks, loaves, sea biscuits etc
AAcross 39:	Chief art theorist of the Nabis, painter of works including Homage to Cézanne, Motif Romanesque and Nude with Bouquet of Violets
AAcross 41:	Meaning “revive the taste” or “restore the appetite”, a richly seasoned slow-cooked French-style stew; or, by extension, a mixture
AAcross 42:	Archaic word for an amorous advance or act of wooing; a speech or written communication; one’s manner of speaking; or, the place one lives
AAcross 45:	From the Latin for “house”, a stately building; a rounded vault or cupola; or, something thus shaped, such as a cloche, head, upset bowl or natural canopy of the sky/trees
AAcross 47:	With a base or floor known as its “hidden hotplate”, a make of cast-iron stove for cooking and as a constant means of warming a kitchen
AAcross 48:	A trimming of woven silk or entwined ribbons; a plait made up of three or more interlaced strands; embroidery; or, a hairband
AAcross 49:	From the Latin for “bunch of grapes”, an inflorescence or panicle characteristic of a plant such as the foxglove, lupin or snapdragon
AAcross 51:	Æthelred the Unready’s son who succeeded his half-brother Harthacnut as king of England and founded Westminster Abbey
AAcross 53:	From the Latin for “alone”, a game such as pegboard or patience for one player; an extinct swan-sized flightless pigeon; a single diamond or other gem in a setting; or, a recluse
AAcross 55:	A highly organised body of land troops; or, by extension, a multitude of ants, people, Salvationists etc working toward the same purpose
AAcross 56:	Terpsichorean folk routine such as Corn Rigs, Gathering Peascods, Old Mole, Rufty Tufty, or any one of those collected by Cecil Sharp	COUNTRY DANCE
AAcross 57:	Explorer who, with his crew of four men and 16 remaining dogs out of a pack of 52, became the first human to reach the South Pole
DDown 1:	Hay/silage for horses or cattle; a rummage in search of edible berries, mushrooms, nuts, plants etc growing in the wild; or, provisions generally
DDown 2:	From the Spanish for “rogue”, an adventurer, cheat, pirate, scoundrel or person living by their wits
DDown 3:	Novelist noted for her classic tale about the fictional railway children from Three Chimneys	NESBIT
DDown 4:	Masses of terra firma surrounded by water; or, things similarly detached, such as free-standing kitchen units or street refuges for pedestrians
DDown 5:	Abbreviated name of a charity symbolised by an avocet	R S P B
DDown 6:	Averaging 86 billion neurons and processing up to 60,000 thoughts each per day, human encephala
DDown 7:	Informal word for ecowarriors’ leafy shelters set up in boughs and branches of trees during protests
DDown 8:	One of the words for a knight of the shears, sartor or tailor
DDown 9:	A revolving cylinder in a washer; a barrel for oil; a house; a tympanum for signalling; or, by extension, in Australia, a piece of information
DDown 10:	An artist’s fine paintbrush or individual style in drawing; a stick of graphite or kohl; a narrow beam of light; or, an aggregate of lines or rays, converging to a point
DDown 18:	From the Old English for “sow”, a word for a plant ovule; clover/grass grown from such; sown land; a first principle; origin; or, offspring
DDown 20:	The morphology and syntax of a language; a book containing a description of said linguistry; or, the basic rules of a field of knowledge
DDown 22:	Word originally for a pie that later came to denote its sweetened or spiced egg-thickened sauce
DDown 23:	Approach sprint in long jump, pole vault etc; period prior to an event; printed matter added to an existing paragraph; or, a collision/tussle	RUN-IN
DDown 25:	From the French for “quarrel”, a word originally for dissolute living, later a fracas by an unruly mob
DDown 27:	Extinct white hunting hounds, represented as supporters on the Earl of Shrewsbury’s coat of arms
DDown 28:	Name of a colour used to describe a third full moon in a season; or, by extension, a rare event
DDown 30:	Nuée —, meaning “burning cloud”, incandescent tephra ejected from a volcano during an eruption	ARDENTE
DDown 32:	A steel bangle worn as one of the “five Ks” symbolising Sikh identity
DDown 33:	Word for a permanent mark made with a hot iron, hence a stamp of ownership, such as a tradename
DDown 34:	Either one of a fowl’s feathered forelimbs or fins of flight
DDown 38:	From the Latin for “trumpet”, a euphonium-like instrument such as its bass relative the bombardon
DDown 40:	A battle flag raised as a rallying point for soldiers; a royal banner; an established model; or, the prescribed weight/purity of metals in coinage
DDown 41:	Meaning “to sew or stitch a song or ode”, an ancient Greek poem for recital; or, a musical composition, free and emotional in character
DDown 43:	King or “rex bellicosus” whose courage in battle earned him the epithet Coeur de Lion/Lionheart	RICHARD I
DDown 44:	The supreme commander of a navy; said officer’s flagship; a master of a fishing fleet; or, a cone shell
DDown 46:	Term for a former male pupil or alumnus of a British public school; or, an affectionate or familiar name used to refer to a fellow, gent or man	OLD BOY
DDown 48:	White-handled athame-like ritual knife used in wicca for cutting herbs, carving symbols into candles etc
DDown 49:	Mythical Thracian king whose team of snow-white horses were stolen by Diomedes and Odysseus
DDown 50:	A bodily limb; or, by extension, a distinct part of a whole, such as an associate of a club, group or party
DDown 52:	Depicted in a portrait by Holbein, Henry VIII’s wife for six months before the marriage was annulled
DDown 54:	Pegs supporting golf balls; targets in quoits; or, short-sleeved tops