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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 10th June 2023
There are 30 across clues and 34 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 10th June 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: Queen who reigned for some 64 years and produced a book titled Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands detailing her visits to Scotland with her husband, Prince Albert
AAcross 12: A glossy layer of apricot jam, eggwash, ganache or syrup applied to cakes, pastry etc; an impervious vitreous decorative coating on porcelain, pottery and other ceramics; or, a transparent topcoat in art
AAcross 13: A colourful often exotic-looking fragrant flower highly specialised for pollination by certain insects, whose around 28,000 species include bee, bird’s-nest, Darwin’s, fly, frog, greater butterfly and lady’s-slipper
AAcross 14: To contrive or send forth a magical spell; a rigid plaster of Paris shell; the dramatis personae of a drama or play; a throw of dice or anything else; or, a group of bees, crabs or falcons
AAcross 15: A hurt inflicted by an ant, bee, jellyfish, nettle, wasp etc; by extension, pain caused by wounding words; or, the point of an epigram
AAcross 16: French semi-opaque fabric; a claret goblet made of very thin glass of the same name; a light frothy hollandaise for asparagus; or, a crème pâtissière-like whip for pastries
AAcross 17: From the Latin for “folding doors”, the hinged shell halves of clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, scallops and other pelecypods
AAcross 19: The white of egg when used as a medium in bookbinding, gilding with gold dust, manuscript illumination or tempera painting
AAcross 21: Known collectively as a booby and often occupying an old nest hole of a woodpecker, a “mud dabbler” in the genus Sitta that derives its main name from hacking at acorns, beech mast, cobs and other kernels
AAcross 23: From the Latin for “to know”, a word for any branch of knowledge including the arts originally, later for the more specific study of the natural and physical world
AAcross 26: An amandine, bougie, cerge, dip or other taper one is said to burn at both ends when exhausting oneself by sleeping late and waking early
AAcross 28: A mushroom in the genus Coprinus, such as the lawyer’s wig, shaggy mane or tippler’s bane that deliquesces into black liquidINK-CAP
AAcross 31: A pantopragmatic or quidnunc meddling in the affairs of others; or, invented by Benjamin Franklin, a type of three-way mirror arranged at a window to show the street below
AAcross 32: Chatter that, in its incessant form, is said to be able to figuratively remove a donkey’s hindlegs
AAcross 34: Food, such as Comté or Vacherin Mont d’Or, made in fruitières from the milk of French Simmental cows; or, the idiomatic opposite of “chalk”
AAcross 36: Word for a catnap, used to denote a button for dozing a clock’s alarm
AAcross 38: A single ring of a large bell; or, a fee for the privilege of using a bridge/road or for selling goods in a market
AAcross 39: A design on paper to be applied to a surface in decalcomania; conveyance of property, a footballer or funds etc from one person or place to another; or, a change of bus/train
AAcross 42: An irregular line of contrasting colour, fat in bacon, lightning or mineral powder; or, a succession of luck, whether good or bad
AAcross 44: Edmund Spenser’s word for a tiny winged magical or mischievous sprite; or, the enchanted realm inhabited by such a being
AAcross 45: Tanzanian gorge where husband-and- wife team Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the first known remains of Homo habilis or “handy man”OLDUVAI
AAcross 47: From a fanciful French formation based on “beautiful”, a word for knick-knacks or curious trinkets; or, miniature books
AAcross 49: Word for hard-paste porcelain originally from a country of the same name; or, cups, saucers, porcelain or similar ware collectively
AAcross 50: From the German for “trash”, a term for art, décor, design, fashion etc considered garish, tasteless, vulgar or of questionable aesthetic value
AAcross 52: A powdery coating on a “Persian apple”; a similar appearance on pottery, evocative of said ripening fruit; or, its pinkish-blush colourPEACH-BLOOM
AAcross 54: French for “heart”; or, Charles VII’s adviser accused of poisoning said king’s chief mistress, Agnès SorelCOEUR
AAcross 55: From “prayer”, one of the balls or paternosters in a rosary, each representing a devotion
AAcross 56: A rider of a high-speed sleigh; a participant in apple ducking; or, a fishing float, of cork traditionally
AAcross 57: Word for a granddaughter originally, later the female equivalent of a nephew; or, more recently, a gender-neutral “nibling”
AAcross 58: Things mown, pruned, scissored or snipped, such as articles from newspapers, grass clippings from lawns or stems for propagation
DDown 1: Said to have been introduced to Italy by Marco Polo, a dangling sweet-filled papier-mâché party decoration smashed by blindfolded revellers
DDown 2: Scots word for a bounce or stagger; a pronk; a steer; or, a clumsy person
DDown 3: Manes of horses; plumes or tufts of birds or helmets; identifying rings on arrows; or, tops of hills or waves
DDown 4: A military jacket’s collar, cuffs and lapels in contrasting colours; linings finishing raw edges; or, claddings
DDown 5: From the French for “in mirth” or “in a merry mood”, a word meaning “fun” originally, later “in eager desire”, especially to hear/see something
DDown 6: From “rock”, the name of a maul forming part of Edward I’s epithet
DDown 7: A series of things, such as cards, dance steps, DNA, events, sonnets or thoughts, following in order
DDown 8: Painter and poet of the PRB whose wife Elizabeth Siddal, or “Guggums”, is immortalised in the character of Beatrice in Beata Beatrix
DDown 9: A natural bridge bidding systemACOL
DDown 10: Word for an alfresco feast that is a synonym of “piece of cake”
DDown 18: From the Latin for “to see”, sights or spectacles of natural scenery etc taken in by the ocelli; works of art depicting said vistas; or, opinions
DDown 20: Traditional style of Irish knitwear with patterns said to represent carrageen moss seaweed, fishermen’s ropes and basketsARAN
DDown 22: Jamaica’s national fruit whose genus, Blighia, honours William Bligh who took said fruit from said island to Kew Gardens in 1793
DDown 24: Word for a little hut or small room originally, later for a cupboard
DDown 25: An anchor’s chain/rode after which a nautical length of 100 fathoms is named; or, a rope or flex generally
DDown 27: Old slang for one’s visage that refers to its roundness, like a clock or compass’s disc of the same name
DDown 29: Country “Österreich” where the concept of Gemütlichkeit refers to a feeling/state of comfort, contentment, cordiality, cosiness and good cheer
DDown 30: A version of a film, publication or recording as a result of adaptation, blue-pencilling or remixing
DDown 33: Part of a type piece that overlaps a neighbouring letter; or, the composer of the music to Show Boat
DDown 34: Type of waterway that shares its etymological root, “pipe, groove”, with a variety of tubular pasta
DDown 35: Joy from one’s own good fortune or another’s misfortune; or, fostered in choral clubs/societies, a part-song for three or more solo male voices
DDown 37: A name for a corn marigold, dunlin, great tit or titmouse, marguerite or moon daisy or an oeil-de-boeufOX-EYE
DDown 40: From the Latin for “deceive”, a character weakness or foible; an error or mistake; blame or culpability for said blunder; or, a fracture in rock
DDown 41: French word for “noon”; the south of France; or, a calf-length skirt
DDown 43: Word for two-year-old deer stags when growing their first antlers
DDown 44: From the Italian for “ornaments for feasts”, garlands of flowers, foliage, fruit, ribbons etc suspended in tied swags; or, carved/painted representations of these
DDown 46: Based on Latin for “to fall”, the close of a musical phrase or section; a fall in pitch of the voice at the end of a sentence; or, rhythmic flow
DDown 48: A little freezer in a fridge; or, a portable cooler/chilly bin for food
DDown 49: A long sea wave; a gaper fish; a wool-carder; or, a type of mudlark given to gathering beach jetsam
DDown 50: Okinawan martial art whose name, translating as “empty hand”, refers to its lack of weapons
DDown 51: A storming; a thrill; guardianship; or, an accumulation of electricity
DDown 53: Six-sided 3-D solid that derives its name from the Greek for “a die”
DDown 54: Word for a band of soldiers serving as reinforcements originally, later any company, complement, gang, squad or team of people
DDown 55: From “bear a burden”, the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial; or, a bucket for scooping water from a boat