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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 15th April 2023
There are 34 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 15th April 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: Artist “Phiz” whose illustrations in the novels of “Boz” include At Mr John Chivery’s tea-table, Lady Dedlock in the Wood, Mr Pecksniff on his Mission and Mr Winkle Returns under Extraordinary Circumstances
AAcross 12: From the Old English meaning “toad head”, the larva or “pollywiggle” of a frog, newt, salamander or the first mentioned amphibian; or, a political hack other than Taper in Benjamin Disraeli’s novel Coningsby
AAcross 13: Chloroplast-bearing photoautotrophic flora with no power of locomotion; bedded oysters; factories; police traps; soles of the feet; spies; or, thieves’ hoards
AAcross 14: A band of gold or silver, sometimes set with gems; an “elf circle” of champignon mushrooms on a woodland floor; one of the concentric markings in the trunk of a tree; or, a disc of matter orbiting Saturn
AAcross 15: French term for silver-gilt or gilt bronze used for candelabra, jewellery, medals, tableware etc; or, a poetic word for a scarlet-red pigment, also known as cinnabar
AAcross 16: Time around dawn or dusk when crepuscular animals, birds and insects, including barn owls, foxes, hawk moths, nightjars, pipistrelles and tawnies, are most active
AAcross 17: An alloy of tin with antimony and copper, formerly lead; a beer tankard, jug, plate etc made of said metal; its bluish-grey colour; or, old slang for prize money
AAcross 19: Word, from the Latin for “roar” in reference to the clamour of stags when challenging rivals, for the annual mating season of said animals and other ruminant mammalians
AAcross 20: From the Greek for “oar, rudder”, word for one who steered a ship originally, later a person who operates an aircraft, balloon or hovercraft
AAcross 21: From the Latin for “mistress of the household”, word for a female ruler in its earliest sense, now a title given to a woman with the rank of Knight Commander or a holder of the Grand Cross in the orders of chivalry
AAcross 22: A series of small waterfalls over rocks; or, something reminiscent of this, such as abundant ruffles of lace or trailing pink bougainvillea
AAcross 25: Combs, plumes or tufts such as the figurative “fallen” examples associated with human dejection; manes; or, foamy tops of waves
AAcross 27: From the Latin for “heart”, a word originally meaning “call to mind, learn by heart”, later any chronicle, log, memorandum or register
AAcross 30: A fleece, pelage or pelt; or, any other outer covering, such as an application of paint/varnish, blanket of dust, husk of a seed, jacket, layer of a bulb or top of a suit of armour
AAcross 31: Informal word for a beverage such as a beer, coffee or tea prepared by steeping; a can, cup or glass of said drink; or, a general concoction
AAcross 32: An emblem of Wales other than the daffodil, leek or red dragon
AAcross 34: A crow or one of the distinct but closely related members of its family, such as a chough, jackdaw, jay, magpie, raven or rook
AAcross 36: Word, derived from that of an artist’s board for mixing colours, for a flat wooden blade for shaping clay; a mattress of straw; or, a platform moved with a fork-lift truck
AAcross 38: Scots dialect for something neat and trim; a soft drop-shot in pickleball and other sports; or, in Australia, a lift on the crossbar or front of a bike
AAcross 39: From the Latin for “young wine”, word for freshly crushed grape juice before or during fermentation; or, from the Persian for “drunk”, a frenzied state of bull elephants
AAcross 40: Old word for a covering or curtain; the headdress of a nun or a bride; or, anything that conceals, disguises or obscures, such as a façade, mask, pretence or a shroud of mist
AAcross 42: Kingsley Amis’s second wife, who penned the Cazalet Chronicles
AAcross 44: From the Latin for “neck”, a bertha, chevesaile, jampot, piccadilly or other band attached to the nape of a garment or worn separately
AAcross 45: Weighted material for stabilising a ship or balloon; or, anything, real or figurative, that provides steadiness
AAcross 47: Word for the hounds regarded as “man’s best friends”, yet originally a term of contempt for humans
AAcross 49: Dorsal bodily areas, such as those of humans said to be “up” when annoyed or those of cats that arch when angry or threatened
AAcross 51: A single gaming cube whose metaphorical casting refers to something which can’t be undone; the cubical dado of a pedestal; or, a stamp for impressing coins etc
AAcross 52: A biscuit-dough shaper, hedge trimmer, jigsaw, lawnmower, mason, snips, topiarist or other person/thing for pruning, severing or slicing
AAcross 54: Fine oak panelling; or, a box pew or the lower part of an interior wall when finished in said woodwork
AAcross 56: An alchemist’s furnace fuelled by an eternal fire for the digestion or transmutation of matter
AAcross 57: In medieval law, a piece of property or a stray falling to the lord of the manor if unclaimed; later, a street urchin; or, a person of thin build
AAcross 58: Word for a desire or intention originally, later a contrivance, drawing, heraldic emblem, motto, peripheral, plan/plot, smartphone or tool
AAcross 59: Quantities of food eaten or oxygen breathed; airways, vents or other conduits; or, new recruits
AAcross 60: A sudden intense fear/shock; or, by extension, a grotesque, horrifying or ludicrous person or thing
DDown 1: A stoat during its winter white colour phase; or, its fur, traditionally used to trim gowns of royalty or peerage
DDown 2: A thief’s bulging bag of booty
DDown 3: A loom-operator or basket-maker; or, a finch-like avian architect with remarkable nest-building skills
DDown 4: English term for chop suey or other medley cooked using the Chinese methods of chao and baoSTIR-FRY
DDown 5: Based on the Latin for “about to happen”, word meaning chance in the Middle Ages, later danger, enterprise, risk or a daring and exciting exploit
DDown 6: A slice of bacon traditionally eaten with eggs on the Monday preceding Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day
DDown 7: Materials used in the rag trade and sold by drapers/haberdashers
DDown 8: A person who figuratively divides hairs in arguments; the opposite of a lumper in the world of taxonomic classification; or, a severe migraine
DDown 9: Indian prince’s cushioned throne
DDown 10: Village in Shropshire, site of Attingham Park with its vast collection of Regency furniture and its John Nash picture galleryATCHAM
DDown 18: Meaning “it is silent”, a word by which a musician or singer understands their instrument or voice must be quiet
DDown 21: A room’s overall interior design and setting including colour scheme, furnishings etc; or, stage scenery
DDown 23: A pear-shaped tropical fruit with pea- or pistachio-coloured flesh
DDown 24: An actor or musician’s first public appearance or performance; or, the presentation of an upper-class young woman into fashionable society
DDown 26: Rhythmical motion back and forth, side to side or to and fro; control, influence, power or rule; or, a hazel rod laid to secure thatch
DDown 28: Dried grapes, such as those sold in miniature red boxes
DDown 29: An amount of provender for cattle or of sustenance for a baby; a plentiful meal; the rate of progress of a lathe; or, an actor’s stooge
DDown 33: A bung for blocking a basin
DDown 34: With “panna”, an Italian pudding of vanilla-infused “cooked cream”
DDown 35: From the Sanskrit for “dark blue”, the indigo shrub or its pigment
DDown 37: Dialect for millraces/streams
DDown 40: From the Latin meaning “to fly”, one of the three wings of a triptych
DDown 41: A grasping of manus by two people when greeting or making an agreement; or, a golden goodbye
DDown 43: French word for instances of ice breaking up in rivers and the subsequent floods, adopted into English to describe utter fiascos
DDown 44: Old word for a horse with a docked cauda or for a racehorse with mixed lineage; now a mixed drink; a fruit medley; or, any mélange
DDown 46: A participant in the racquet sport in which love means zero/nil
DDown 48: The hemione or Asiatic wild ass from which a medieval siege weapon derives its name, due to said trebuchet’s kicking action
DDown 50: Rhythmical song to which sailors hauled ropes; or, a ramshackle hut
DDown 52: A wine-flask or water bottle for the table; or, the amount contained
DDown 53: From the Italian for “propellers”, a variety of fusilli-like pasta spirals
DDown 55: French word for “black”, used to describe gritty crime dramas
DDown 57: From a word for a trifle, trinket or an odd ridiculous notion, a term for a caprice or sudden passing fancy