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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 19th August 2023
There are 31 across clues and 34 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 19th August 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: From the Latin for “dice-box”, the liliaceous “chess flower” or “snake’s-head” with delicate bell-shaped purple or white chequered blooms; or, the name given to several butterflies of similar pattern
AAcross 12: From “feather”, a word for a point or tip originally, later a peg; a leg; a brooch; a skittle; a pastry flattener; a tack for dressmaking/tailoring; or, a projecting tenon of a dovetail joint
AAcross 13: Autodidact, author and heritor of his friends John and Christine Nash’s farmhouse “Bottengoms”, who wrote the Wormingford series and an account of a fictional Suffolk village he called AkenfieldBLYTHE
AAcross 14: Devoured raw in an eating competition held in Newent, Gloucestershire, vegetables with “pearl” varieties traditionally pickled as pub snacks or as accompaniments to ploughman’s lunches
AAcross 15: A rush of seawater over the shore after the breaking of a wave; the imitative sound or “scend” of such a surge; swagger or bluster; or, a typographical flourish on a letter
AAcross 16: Conical basketwork traps of hazel or willow, traditionally used for catching salmon
AAcross 17: One of a pair of matching items either handcrafted in the trade of cobblery/cordwainery or mass- produced; or, something reminiscent of this in shape or use, such as a hoof plate, sled runner or wheel drag
AAcross 18: From the Latin for “to cut”, each of several parts into which something, such as an arthropod/insect, orange or population, is or may be divided; or, part of a circle that is cut by its chord
AAcross 20: A decorative strip of coloured silk attached to the top of the spine of a hardback book; or, a hair accessory, such as a fillet or the example named after Lewis Carroll’s heroine Alice
AAcross 22: Any one of the complex self-similar geometric patterns observed in natural phenomena including clouds, coastlines, ferns, lightning, peacock feathers, pine cones, romanescos, seashells, snowflakes and trees
AAcross 25: Shrub often used for hedging in neat suburban gardens, hence its use as the name of a muggle street, where the non-magical “perfectly normal” Dursleys reside, in the fictional universe of Harry Potter
AAcross 27: A fundamental concept in physics used to refer to the propulsive force of a jet or rocket engine; or, a sudden attacking lunge in fencing
AAcross 30: A slender Provençal drum traditionally used to accompany an old folk dance of the same name
AAcross 32: An adjective meaning feeble, light in colour, peaky, wan, washed-out or whitish; or, as a noun, a vertical stripe on a shield; a wooden stake forming a fence; or, a conceptual boundary
AAcross 34: In literature, the nickname of Reginald Twistleton in the Wodehousian Uncle Fred stories; or, the main male Dalmatian in The Hundred and One Dalmatians
AAcross 36: Enigma code-deciphering machine developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park; or, an ice cream pudding, set in a cannonball- or dome-shaped mould of the same name
AAcross 38: Word for a broad smile, yet derived from Old English meaning “bare the teeth in pain or anger”
AAcross 39: Spear of “sparrow-grass”, called sprue in its thin or young state
AAcross 42: Word for inlay originally, later a symbol, such as Apple Inc’s bitten apple, Canada’s maple leaf, England’s rose, Nike’s swoosh or Scotland’s thistle; or, an allegorical illustration
AAcross 44: Any one of the Seven Sisters represented as stars in the constellation Taurus, hence a brilliant septet of poets or other people
AAcross 45: A formal agreement; a flat case or “flapjack” containing a mirror, pressed powder and a puff; or, a tabloid-sized version of a broadsheet
AAcross 48: From “running place”, an aisle connecting rooms or compartments in a building or railway carriage; or, a strip of land or airspace, affording travel between two places
AAcross 50: A mint imperial-like Scottish sweet made in a revolving potPAN DROP
AAcross 52: Burrowing “mouldwarp” or “want”; or, one, such as a spy, who works in darkness, secrecy or underground
AAcross 53: A fancy twist or pigtail-like motif found in architecture, calligraphy, design, handwriting or scrollwork
AAcross 55: A plot for cabbages, roses or vegetables; a faux beauty spot; a cloth badge; a fool or jester; or, a piece of fabric for mending or quilting
AAcross 57: Author, gardener, historian, former director of the V&A and of the National Portrait Gallery, scholar of Elizabethan miniatures and tricyclist, Sir Roy
AAcross 58: Name of a Roman god of fire and the forge, hence a literary name for a blacksmith or ironworker
AAcross 59: Rock from which a valuable metal or mineral, such as diamond or gold, can be extracted profitably; or, a poetic word for a precious metal
AAcross 59: Rock from which a valuable metal or mineral, such as diamond or gold, can be extracted profitably; or, a poetic word for a precious metal
AAcross 60: A lift for conveying crockery/food between floors of a building; a stand for puddings etc, placed near a dining table; or, a lazy SusanDUMB WAITER
DDown 1: A slice of bread or wooden board as a primitive platter upon which to cut food; a mortarboard; or, a digger
DDown 2: A beat of a heart; a hit of a ball in golf or tennis; a solidus or virgule; a pull of an oar; a sound of a clock’s chime; or, a sudden sweep of genius or luck
DDown 3: Cases for gunpowder; dewars for helium or liquid air; fiascos for wine; flat bottles holding liquor in hip pockets; or, Thermoses for drinks
DDown 4: An alley; an extract from a book; a journey by air/sea; a section of a piece of music; or, the advance of time
DDown 5: Heroine with a truth-telling “alethiometer” in His Dark Materials or, the “King Arthur’s Harp” constellation, home to the Double Double star
DDown 6: Final arrow launched in an archery match, hence a word for outcome
DDown 7: A quick photo; or, a glimpse
DDown 8: A symbolic or non-representational painting or sculpture; or, a précis
DDown 9: A legend-like story but of gods and heroes rather than saints; a fallacy or figment; a tale with a veiled meaning; or, a fictional person or thing
DDown 10: Achilles’s half-man and half-horse teacher after whom the first-identified astronomical “centaur” is named
DDown 19: From the French for “raw”, cotton, linen, silk etc in its natural unbleached state; or, its grège/off-white colour
DDown 21: Poet described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know” by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb, née Ponsonby
DDown 23: Word for something rounded or sturdy, such as a boule of bread, core of an ear of corn, hazelnut, lump of coal or short-legged type of horse
DDown 24: From Persian for “lapis lazuli”, a cerulean-like colour; heraldic blue; or, a poetic word for a clear sky
DDown 26: A little glass ampoule for a drug, liquid, potion, vaccine etc
DDown 28: Japanese word for soy sauce
DDown 29: A black, blue, green, red or yellow figure, interlocking to form a symbol of the Olympic Games
DDown 31: From the Latin for “white”, a blank book in which to compile a collection of items, such as photos or stamps
DDown 33: Direction of the rising sun, thus symbolic of awakenings, beginnings, rebirth and of a new dawn
DDown 34: An instrument for which Chopin wrote ballades, études, mazurkas, nocturnes, preludes and waltzes
DDown 35: A heap; a heavy stake; the surface of a carpet; or, a stack of money
DDown 37: From the Latin for “millstone”, one of the back teeth for grinding food
DDown 40: A mountain, especially a snow-capped Swiss one; or, its pasture
DDown 41: Precipitation often accompanied by an earthy “petrichor” scent
DDown 43: From “physician” and “to heal”, a healing drug or remedy; or, the “marvellous” potion concocted by Roald Dahl’s character George
DDown 44: A victualler of food or meals; or, historically, an officer who exacted provisions for the royal household
DDown 46: A chinois-like kitchen strainer, adopted by “Pastafarians” as the symbolic headgear of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
DDown 47: Author whose classic tale The Wind in the Willows inspired A A Milne’s play Toad of Toad Hall
DDown 49: From “eye”, an oeil-de-boeuf window; or, the boss of a volute (6)
DDown 50: A press stud or snap-fastener with a male and female part; a robotic dancer; a maize-burster; or, with “party”, a confetti-ejecting device
DDown 51: From Akan for “penny worth of gold dust”, a Ghanaian coin equal to 1/100 of a “cowrie shell” cedi
DDown 52: Former vice-president of the Bluebell Railway who played the part of the zookeeper in Animal Magic and narrated Tales of the Riverbank
DDown 54: A delicate filigree-like fabric; or, a fine cord or ribbon, such as St Audrey’s tawdry necklet, synonymous with cheap, gaudy or vulgar finery
DDown 56: The sea’s cyclic ebb and flow; an old or poetic word for a fair, festival or season; or, a turning point