Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 25th February 2023

There are 32 across clues and 30 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 25th February 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Artist known for flower paintings, a floral scheme at Frogmore House commissioned by Queen Charlotte, a portrait of sculptor Joseph Nollekens and for being one of only two female founders of the Royal Academy	MOSER
AAcross 10:	A savoury mixture similar to baked eggs or oeufs en cocotte; or, a miniature often fluted fireproof dish in which an individual portion of said food is traditionally cooked/served
AAcross 11:	A puck used in the game octopush; British slang for a pound sterling; or, a fast-swimming often bioluminescent or colour-changing cephalopod, known as calamari when prepared as food
AAcross 13:	A dimple in the base of a glass wine bottle; a type of drop kick for touch in rugby; a bet/gamble on horses or in roulette; a point in faro; or, a riverboat propelled with a quant
AAcross 14:	Part of a planet or a moon facing away from the Sun, thus in darkness; or, by extension, the dark, gloomy or mysterious aspect of anything
AAcross 15:	A dense crowd or jumble; an impromptu secret conference; a close gathering of strategising sports players prior to a game; or, a group of penguins or walruses
AAcross 16:	Nesting on the cliffs of Britain’s west coast, a red-billed, red-legged corvid and a symbol of Cornwall
AAcross 17:	Missives; jottings taken to aid one’s memory; annotations; piano keys; birds’ songs; or, symbols representing musical sounds
AAcross 18:	Word for a manger for provender in a stable or a container for bread/grain originally, later a rack for wine in a cellar; one particular bottling of said plonk; or, a skip, wastepaper basket or other receptacle for litter
AAcross 19:	A plea, shout or urgent appeal; a fit of weeping; a pack of hounds or their hunting bay; a proclamation of a town’s bellringer; or, the call of a street-trader selling goods
AAcross 20:	From the German for “eddy” or “whirlpool”, an Austrian pastry of apple, cinnamon and sultanas encased in filo and baked
AAcross 23:	A pompom for a woolly hat; a hair tie for securing a ponytail; a plastic ball attached to said elastic band; or, a fuzz ball or pill on the surface of a knitted garment through rubbing
AAcross 25:	The alchemical name for lead; or, a planet with a ring system home to possibly millions of moonlets
AAcross 28:	From the Greek for “cup” and the Latin for “ladle, pan”, an originally French word for a stew; or, the oven-to-table lidded dish in which said pot-au-feu is cooked
AAcross 30:	Meaning “four”, a word used as a prefix in names of things including a courtyard, a 4 x 4 motorbike and a four-footed animal such as a horse; or, a serving of four shots of espresso
AAcross 32:	An angel of the second order whose distinctive gift is knowledge; or, in art, an amoretto or putto depicting such a being, traditionally in the form of a winged child
AAcross 34:	Amylum obtained from potatoes or grain and traditionally used to stiffen laundry/linen; or, by extension, rigidity or formality of manner
AAcross 35:	A couple of gloves, married humans, horses harnessed together, cards of the same denomination or other duo of people or things considered equal or matched
AAcross 36:	French word originally for a simple bundle, later the accessories, clothes and linens collected by a bride for her marriage
AAcross 38:	An actor’s cue; a memorandum sent as a reminder of the time limit for payment; or, anything that serves to jog one’s memory
AAcross 40:	Latin word for “key”, hence a clue for interpreting a cipher or solving a problem; or, a glossary
AAcross 41:	A backup person or thing ready for immediate action in an emergency; or, without the hyphen, the sleep mode of an electronic device	STAND-BY
AAcross 44:	Old Norse for “cloud” originally, later the nubiferous region occupied by said nephological mass; azure or cerulean; the heavens; weather; or, upper rows of pictures in a gallery
AAcross 45:	Alluded to in the stanza “full fathom five” in The Tempest, any one of the saline “mares” forming the oceans; a great wave; the tide; or, the maritime career of a sailor
AAcross 46:	From a Latin word for “jour”, a record of one’s engagements, events and experiences logged in a journal of the same name
AAcross 47:	An architectural support such as a pillar; a regular article, piece or section in a newspaper; an upright mass of air, smoke, water etc; or, a vertical division of a page/table
AAcross 49:	Word for an hors d’oeuvre or nibble that derives from the French for “sofa”, in allusion to food sat on bread like a person on said seat
AAcross 51:	Word for young knights serving under the banners of others originally, later unmarried men
AAcross 52:	Author who anticipated the concept of augmented reality in his 1901 story The Master Key and also penned the Oz series of books
AAcross 53:	An adept, bigwig, dandy, don or fop; a gentle hillock; a crescendo followed by a diminuendo; or, a succession of oceanic waves
AAcross 54:	The power or status of a Regina or a Rex; members of said sovereigns’ families collectively; a queen bee; or, a payment to an author or inventor
AAcross 55:	A circular biscuit, piece of dough/ pastry etc; a slice of bread or one sandwich; a dance in a ring; a series of calls made by a doctor or a postie; or, an outburst of applause
DDown 1:	Japanese art of wrapping objects or gifts in a harmonious manner
DDown 2:	Portmanteau word for a meal of breakfast and luncheon combined
DDown 3:	Word for firedrakes after which tarragon derives its name; paper kites; flying/Komodo lizards; heraldic wyverns; or, keelboats for racing
DDown 4:	An act of mimicry; a caricature; or, a copy or replica of something, such as a diamond or an original painting
DDown 5:	Hanks or hasps of yarn; tangles; winning streaks; or, V-shaped flocks of ducks, geese or swans in flight
DDown 6:	From the French for “together”, a group of actors, dancers, garments, musicians, systems or other coordinated set of people/things
DDown 7:	Double crowns of the pharaohs
DDown 8:	The head of a cauliflower; lemon cheese or other citrus conserve; or, clotted milk used to make fromage
DDown 9:	One’s bouche; the texture of wine on one’s palate, rather than its aroma or “nose”; the responsiveness of a horse to the bit; or, the opening of a bottle, cave, jar, river, volcano etc
DDown 12:	Child’s word for a moppet or a puppet; a posser for stirring laundry in a washtub; an easy catch in cricket; or, a wheeled cart for a film camera
DDown 19:	Makers of forks, knives, spoons and other silverware placed on dining tables in order of course or use
DDown 21:	A fork or an electric pop-up device for the purpose of browning bread
DDown 22:	Formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago during the Hadean Eon, our home planet
DDown 24:	A curve in the side of a guitar or violin; a boxing/wrestling match; or, a period, stint or turn of something, such as drinking or ill health
DDown 26:	Pinkish leaf-stalks forced under terracotta cloches or bell jars; word repeated by actors to simulate background conversation; a row, rumpus or squabble; or, nonsense
DDown 27:	An escape; a leash; a pillowcase; or, a short chemise or petticoat
DDown 29:	From a dialect word for a small or withered apple, cider traditionally brewed in the West Country
DDown 31:	From the Latin meaning “to sleep”, informal word for a boarding school bedroom with several bunks
DDown 32:	The act of numbering; the sum tallied; a measure of the fineness of yarn; or, a European title of nobility, equal in rank to a British earl
DDown 33:	A lustrous silicate mineral, used to add shimmer to cosmetics
DDown 37:	From the Latin meaning “wondrous beauty”, a sweet, yellow plum-like variety of greengage
DDown 39:	Miniature block/tile for mosaic
DDown 40:	Brothers Robert and William who published the first edition of an English dictionary considered to be a cruciverbalist’s companion
DDown 42:	Named after a river, a peacock- or teal-like hue, but less green; one of the colours of Smythson stationery	NILE BLUE
DDown 43:	Any one of the poecilonyms systematically listed in a thesaurus
DDown 44:	Selkies assuming human form on land, according to Celtic folklore
DDown 46:	Word for ponds into which wild ducks were enticed for capture originally, later any animals, birds, people, wooden mallards etc employed to lure others into traps
DDown 47:	From the Latin for “hut for four”, a barracks or billet in a garrison town
DDown 48:	A hollow shape or matrix in which bronze, jelly, plaster etc is cast/set
DDown 50:	A region or space; extent of a 2-D or plane surface; or, a field of study