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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 5th August 2023
There are 30 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 5th August 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Travelling at speeds of up to 35mph and mating in a unique wheel formation, often on the wing, a “devil’s darning-needle” such as an azure hawker, blue dasher, emerald, flame skimmer or green darner
AAcross 10: A nightbird, such as the autumn-hooting territorial “tawny” named for its fulvous plumage; or, alluding to said “Billy Hooter’s” nocturnal lifestyle, a nighthawk, as opposed to a lark
AAcross 11: From the Latin for “collect, gather together”, a word for spirals, helices or twists, such as those observed in incense, ropes, snakes, springs or wires; or, figurative entanglements, hubbubs, perplexities or stirs
AAcross 13: A stint of strenuous exercise or overindulgence, for example; a contest or match in boxing, fencing or wrestling; a curve in the side of a violin; or, an attack of illness, such as flu
AAcross 14: From the Latin for “time, season”, a violent storm, such as that conjured up by Shakespeare’s master magician Prospero; or, by extension, any great commotion, tumult or uproar
AAcross 15: Lancashire-born author of a series of books for children based on mischievous schoolboy William Brown and his band of outlawsCROMPTON
AAcross 16: From the French for “canaries”, small barrel organs formerly used to teach tunes to said songbirds
AAcross 18: From “to walk”, a masonry foundation of a stone building; or, the substructure of an ancient Greek or Roman temple
AAcross 20: Goblins said to inhabit ruined Scottish castles; or, with the Latin name Carduelis carduelis, referring to a fondness of artichoke, cardoon and thistle seeds, the goldfinches
AAcross 23: A missive penned by an epistolarian; a literal meaning, as opposed to the spirit; a symbol in an alphabet; or, a style of typeface
AAcross 25: A drink of beer mixed with ginger ale or lemonade; or, Laurence Sterne’s character Tristram, birthed by the “man-midwife” Dr Slop
AAcross 28: City in Uttar Pradesh, site of the Moti Masjid “Pearl Mosque” and the Taj Mahal “Crown of the Palaces”
AAcross 30: Bain-maries, skillets, stockpots, woks and other such cookware; steel drums; loaves of bread; small compressed cakes of watercolours; or, bowls/dishes of pairs of scales
AAcross 31: An aromatic substance; a fragrant salve; a pleasant odour; a lemonscented herb whose genus, Melissa, means “honey bee” or, anything that comforts, heals, restores or soothes
AAcross 33: A hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle or other confused mixture; bric-à-brac, cast-offs and oddments collected for a rummage sale; or, William Brown’s trusty dog
AAcross 35: From Latin for “spoke”, a straight line from a circle’s centre to its circumference; an arm of a sextant or a starfish; a bone parallel to the ulna; or, a vein of an insect’s wing
AAcross 36: One of the sheets forming a ship’s collective canvas; or, a hawk’s wing
AAcross 37: A loud resonant sound of a bass drum, bittern, cannon, explosion, thunderclap, shock wave etc; a spar on a ship; or, a sudden surge or uptick in births, business or prosperity
AAcross 38: A Scots and northern English word for a turnip, which influenced the name of the parsnip
AAcross 40: From Old English for “watery”, an ait, holm, inch or skerry; or, anything detached or isolated, except for a man, according to John Donne
AAcross 42: From “garland” and “to crown, wreathe”, a family tree, a pedigree or a scroll recording a genealogy; or, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its various manuscripts
AAcross 43: From Latin for “to look”, positions of the planets; or, relationships between viewers and the viewed
AAcross 46: A colourful cocktail or medley of berries, grapes, melon balls, orange segments, pineapple chunks etc; or, military slang for a display of medals, ribbons and other decorationsFRUIT SALAD
AAcross 49: Word for places in medieval or Tudor households for the preparation of cordials, herbal tinctures, liqueurs, medicines, scents, soap etc originally, later for housekeepers’ pantries
AAcross 52: Toys weighted to rock themselves right; revolving drums in drying machines; acrobats performing somersaults; or, drinking glasses, originally with rounded bottoms
AAcross 54: Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era
AAcross 56: A light and lively movement of the feet; a stumble; a jaunt, jolly or tootle; a blunder; or, a group of goats
AAcross 57: Bodily “ticker” whose proverbial wearing on one’s sleeve is said to stem from jousting knights tying ladies’ favours to their armour
AAcross 58: Hole in a needle, said to be “easier for a camel to go through ... than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God”, according to the Gospels
AAcross 59: A coiner or inventor of words
DDown 1: From Tahitian for “good, nice”, a tiki cocktail of curaçao, lime and rumMAI TAI
DDown 2: Conical basket traditionally for wild strawberries sold at market, for which a penny was refunded on its return
DDown 3: Mode of blending in art, described by Leonardo as “without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke”
DDown 4: Originally, a hoop of iron for “clothing” or “dressing” a cartwheel, later revived in the form of a ring of rubber round the rim of a wheel
DDown 5: Huts; temporary stalls at fairs, exhibitions or markets; or, partly enclosed cubicles in which to cast votes, dine or make calls
DDown 6: A signal that a danger or difficulty, such as an air-raid or illness, is over; or, permission to proceedALL-CLEAR
DDown 7: Motorbikes such as the Vespa types named after wasps; foot-propelled toys; or, any light vehicles for travelling swiftly over ice, snow or water
DDown 8: A small broom; a twisted bunch as a torch; a bundle of hay/straw; a flock of snipe; or, something delicate, such as a streak of smoke or a tuft of hair
DDown 9: Word for housekeeping or general administration originally, thence for a bishopric or an episcopate
DDown 12: A shortening of an old word for entertainment or fun that is used to describe a physical activity with set rules, such as polo, rugby or tennis
DDown 17: A hut, lean-to, small building etc for bikes, cattle, firewood, hobbies, garden storage or, according to Stella Gibbons, “something nasty”
DDown 19: Literally meaning “fine world”, French for fashionable societyBEAU MONDE
DDown 21: From Latin for “headache”, a noisy kitchenware-rattling callithump, mock serenade or skimmington to newly-weds or wrongdoers; or, any horrisonant cacophony or din
DDown 22: From “chirps, squeaks”, word for simple wind instruments from which the term for tubes/hoses derives
DDown 24: A light horse- or pony-drawn carriage; an ambush, gin, pitfall or snare; a greyhound’s pre-race cage; or, a sandy bunker on a golf course
DDown 26: Italian for “sweet”, paired with “vita” to mean a life of luxury
DDown 27: From “dwellings, lodgings”, an old word for students’ halls that is preserved in the names of the buildings of four legal societies with exclusive right of calling people to the English bar; or, pubs and taverns
DDown 29: A plant with various meadow species bearing stems suggestive of cats’, dogs’ or foxes’ tails
DDown 32: Satellite “Luna” whose phases were believed to cause intermittent insanity, hence the term “lunatic”
DDown 33: Leaps, such as those made by parachutists; or, equestrian obstacles, such as cavaletti, or “little horses”
DDown 34: Watery plunge of an aquanaut, frogman, pearler or waterfowl; or, a swift aerial descent of a bird of prey
DDown 39: Meaning “burden”, a shepherd, sycamore fig farmer and prophet of doom in the OT who envisaged the locusts devouring the crops
DDown 41: — membra, Latin term for fragments of a literary work, from Horace’s phrase translating as “limbs of a dismembered poet”DISJECTA
DDown 42: Sounds made by the examples given in 34 Down as they hit water; or, patches/pops of bright colours
DDown 44: Horologist whose association with Robert Hooke led him to make one of the first balance-spring watches and who was the first to inscribe serial numbers on the back of timepieces
DDown 45: The act/skill of apery or burlesque; or, the resemblance of an organism, such as a stick insect, to another animal/object, such as a twig
DDown 47: An uncut diamond; a sketch; a yobbo; or, unmown “jungle” in golf
DDown 48: Nickname for a Baptist/Dunker
DDown 50: Spitz-type hunting dogs whose name translates as “barkers”
DDown 51: One’s get-up or garb; or, a kit
DDown 53: An ursine animal hunted by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
DDown 55: A hollow with speleothems such as stalactites/stalagmites, used for maturing cheese in Cheddar Gorge