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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 12th August 2023
There are 30 across clues and 34 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 12th August 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 7: Painter whose iconic Impression, Sunrise inspired the name of the Impressionist movement and whose ambitious Women in the Garden is considered testament to his dedication to working en plein air
AAcross 8: A flower or mass of flowers preceding the fruit of a rosaceous tree, such as the almond, apple, cherry, peach or plum; or, the state or season of such efflorescence
AAcross 10: A tree trunk or main stem; a perennial part of a herbaceous plant; a person’s ancestry or line of descent; a fund or store; or, a farm’s collective animals, kept for meat or milk
AAcross 12: Thought to derive from an ancient word for “hopper”, the name of a “grenouille” living an amphibious double life, both on land and in fresh water, whose Latin designation, Rana, is said to be imitative of croaking
AAcross 13: A type of turf labyrinth of which two ancient examples remain in England; or, a state of bewilderment, perplexity or puzzlement
AAcross 14: From an Old English word for “untameable, invincible”, precious stones sometimes brought to Earth’s surface during rare volcanic eruptions of kimberlite magma; or, rhombi
AAcross 15: From “to beat”, a mixture used for making pancakes or for coating a fish, fritter or other food before frying ; a damaged piece of type in letterpress printing ; or, in sports, a ball hitter
AAcross 16: Io’s guardian, whose 100 eyes were transferred to a peacock’s tail and name was given to several pheasants and various eye-spotted butterflies; or, any vigilant watcher/observer
AAcross 18: Sessile porifers, such as the breadcrumbs, crumpled dusters, mermaid’s gloves, prawn crackers, sea oranges or shredded carrots, that play crucial roles in marine ecosystems
AAcross 20: A duck that flaps its wings like the paddle wheels of a vapour-powered boat of the same name; a utensil for cooking food using a moist-heat method; a soft-shell clam; or, a robber operating in a gang on a bus or train
AAcross 23: Based on the Greek for “parsley”, an umbellifer, such as the “pascal” variety with crisp leaf-stalks served in salads or used as a base ingredient in the aromatic mixture mirepoix
AAcross 25: From Greek for “work”, one’s pizzazz, vigour, zest or zip; or, a scalar quantity and quantitative property that can exist in forms including kinetic, potential and thermal
AAcross 28: From the Greek for “large melons”, squash-like gourds such as the Baby Boo, Cinderella, Jack-o’-lantern, Lumina or Sugar Pie varieties
AAcross 29: A footprint or a pace; a small space; a ladder rung; a stair tread; a short walk; a dance move; or, gait
AAcross 31: Large scissors for clipping sheep, jointing poultry, pinking or topiary
AAcross 33: Onomatopoeic word imitating sounds of wet or messy things striking surfaces; slang for squashed bug-like symbols called asterisks; or, vertical elements central to chairs’ backs
AAcross 35: A hide; the body’s somatosensory cutis; sausage casing; potato peel; a drum; or, a layer that forms on the top of hot custard or milk as it cools
AAcross 36: From the Greek for “sailor”, a marine mollusc whose name originally referred to the floating argonaut octopus, wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its tentacles as sails
AAcross 39: Translating as “mad words, crazy speech”, an old form of Japanese comedy, traditionally performed during intermissions of Noh plays
AAcross 41: Something large or impressive; a destroyer of colds, crimes, dams or gangs, for example; a horse-breaker; a frolic or a roisterer; a US term for a boy; or, a southerly Australian gale
AAcross 42: A baited hook for catching eels
AAcross 45: From an old word for “coheir”, a husband or wife; either member of an established unmarried couple; an ally; or, one’s accomplice in crime
AAcross 46: Meaning “stretched” in French, a core movement in ballet
AAcross 47: Hooded venomous snakes that may be “charmed” with pungis or mimicked in yogic “bhujangasana”
AAcross 49: An old word for a horse-drawn carriage with liveried attendants; any retinue; the apparatus required for a particular task, such as tea-making; or, any set of useful articles
AAcross 51: A large earthen jug; any ewer; an urn-like insect trap of a carnivorous plant such as the huntsman’s cup; or, in baseball, a “twirler”
AAcross 53: Welsh dandy and self-styled “king of Bath”, nicknamed Beau, whose mistress, Juliana Popjoy, is said to have lived in a tree for some 30 years
AAcross 54: From the Greek for “lovely” or “desired”, one of the nine Muses of the arts and sciences, who specifically presided over love poetry
AAcross 55: A neologism referring to the collective users of a microblogging site formerly symbolised by a blue birdTWEEPLE
AAcross 56: Fabric fashioned from flax fibres and often associated with a natural, rustic or timeless aesthetic; or, napery made of said cloth collectively
DDown 1: A medieval warrior or man of honourable military rank, traditionally idealised in tales as a shining-armour-clad rescuer of damsels in distress
DDown 2: Slang for a counterfeit coin/note; a forged or worthless cheque; or, a bankruptcy, clanger, dud, racehorse sure to lose, sham or other failure
DDown 3: From the Latin for “wheel”, a round, such as Sumer is icumen in a cycle of duty; a schedule; or, a hurdy-gurdy
DDown 4: Large oval platters for roasts etc
DDown 5: From French for “shell”, a culinary term referring to a flattened cutlet of meat, typically breaded and fried in a similar manner to schnitzel
DDown 6: From the Balti for “ball”, a fast-paced “sport of kings” involving chukkas, divots, “hired assassins” and mallets
DDown 7: An acid or other corrosive used for the “biting” process in etching; an adjective generally meaning “caustic”; or, an adhesive for fixing gold leaf
DDown 8: Persian word for a market, adopted into English to describe a fancy fair, a jumble sale or a large store selling miscellaneous goods, imitative of said souk
DDown 9: The quality of being unassuming in the estimation of one’s abilities or accomplishments; pudency; or, a panel, piece or veil for covering the bosom or décolletage
DDown 11: A classical Greek word for praise and renown that entered into English as university slang generally meaning congrats, hats off or well done
DDown 17: A lively person; a regular attender; a feasible idea, project or proposal; or, something that travels very fast
DDown 19: From Latin for “clod”, a plot of land attached to a parish church that served as part of a clergyman’s benefice; or, a poetic word for fields or the soil
DDown 21: A limb one is said to be prepared to give away in order to convey the extent of one’s desires or wishes
DDown 22: From Sanskrit for “one”, a word for traditional Indian one-horse carriages or carts, often with fabric canopies
DDown 24: Orange-red terrestrial juvenile newts prior to metamorphosing into aquatic adults; or, newts generally
DDown 26: Word that referred to children or young people of either sex originally, later to young females only
DDown 27: “Emmets” that holidaymakers are likened to by the Cornish
DDown 28: Word, from Old French meaning “doll, plaything”, for a young dog
DDown 30: A shortening of a word meaning “address, call upon” that describes the loud ringing of a bell or bells
DDown 31: A glossy originally silk textile
DDown 32: Word for jabs or pokes to the ribs; taunts; archaeological excavations; spells of shovelling; or, lodgings
DDown 34: A plumber’s snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell
DDown 37: A fallen tree trunk; a bulky piece of firewood; pertaining to said timber’s shape or inertia, a rolled roulade-like cake; or, a blockhead
DDown 38: Any one of the flowerless plants admired/collected by Victorians in the craze known as pteridomania
DDown 40: Town noted for its connections to George Eliot, who was born locally on the Arbury Estate and drew inspiration from the area for her novelsNUNEATON
DDown 41: Author of a classic children’s novel based on a secret garden
DDown 43: French cookery term meaning “to bind” that came to refer to an intimate connection or secret love affair
DDown 44: A trick-taking trumping card game from which five hundred derives
DDown 45: A feeling of irritation; a score of 30 in a belote- or écarté-like card game; or, work inlaid with tortoiseshell
DDown 46: Informal name for the hat depicted in miniature as one of the iconic charm-like pieces in Monopoly
DDown 47: A magic figure; a planet’s orbit; a hoop; or, a parallel of latitude
DDown 48: One of a bunch or hand of yellow plantain-like fruits synonymous with the “big cheese” of an organisation
DDown 50: Apple Inc. touch-screen tablet
DDown 52: Clues or hints; pourboires; or, slender often tapering extremities