Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 26th August 2023

There are 30 across clues and 34 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 26th August 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 10:	Any one of the approximately 34,000 known species of aquatic “pisces”, including the banana wrasse, candy basslet, cherry barb, chocolate gourami, lemon sole, pumpkinseed and strawberry dottyback
AAcross 11:	Blue-petalled “hurtsickles” or “bachelor’s-buttons” of wheatfields or meadows, whose Latin designation, Centaurea cyanus, refers to said blooms’ legendary use as healing herbs by the centaur Chiron
AAcross 13:	Baskets formerly used for winnowing grain; handheld, often concertina-like devices, for creating currents of air; things resembling the latter, such as peacocks’ spread tails; or, ardent admirers/devotees
AAcross 14:	From Old English for “loaf feast”, a festival traditionally observed on August 1 to celebrate the beginning of the harvest and the first of its fruits
AAcross 15:	A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ringing
AAcross 16:	Word for absurd acts, masquerades, ridiculous pretences or travesties; or, riddles acted out in a parlour game of the same name
AAcross 17:	Magical Homeric herb used by Odysseus as a countercharm against Circe’s spells, identified in the real world as the snowdrop or a species of allium, commonly called golden onion, lily-leek or sorcerer’s garlic
AAcross 18:	Sailor of a maxi or similar boat that is elegantly fitted out for cruising, pleasure trips, racing or regattas
AAcross 20:	Old word for evidence or proof; the rationale/reasons given in support of a proposition; an exchange of said motives; or, a squabble, quarrel or other unfriendly altercation
AAcross 22:	Based on the Latin for “wine” and “sour”, sharp- or tart-tasting acidic “acetum” or “eisel” used as a condiment or pickling medium; or, by extension, bitterness or sourness of countenance, speech or temper
AAcross 25:	A driver/rider of elephants
AAcross 27:	A diacritic in the form of a small dot over a lower-case i or j, hence a word for an iota, jot or other tiny or scarcely detectable amount
AAcross 30:	Type of figure skater specialising in ballroom-inspired routines choreographed to music	ICE DANCER
AAcross 32:	A network of intersecting lines forming a pattern of squares, observed in everyday things such as a crossword puzzle, map, piece of graph paper, spreadsheet or trellis
AAcross 34:	Dialect for a pickled cucumber or gherkin; a mild insult meaning “fool”; or, a bespectacled figure wearing a red-and-white stripy jumper, hidden in a series of picture puzzles
AAcross 36:	Bureaus, écritoires, secretaires and other such furnishings, such as the standing types used by the likes of Churchill, Dickens and Woolf
AAcross 38:	Old word for a number/total; or, a fib, story, tarradiddle or yarn
AAcross 39:	Regional name for flour-based dumplings that bob or float atop soups or stews; or, a nickname for the US soldiers of the First World War
AAcross 42:	Word for little-travelled, often rural, minor paths, sideroads or tracks; or, by extension, obscure or secondary areas of knowledge or interest
AAcross 44:	From the Greek for “power”, a type of generator for converting mechanical energy into electricity; or, a figurative ball of fire or live wire
AAcross 45:	From the Latin for “sail-yard”, word for a feeler or horn of an insect or other arthropod, adopted by Marconi to describe an aerial
AAcross 48:	From Latin meaning “to cut”, word for parts or portions, such as slices for microscopic examination, chapters, divisions of orchestras, newspaper departments, orange segments or military subunits, such as platoons
AAcross 50:	Word, from the Greek for “depths”, for the assemblage of flora and fauna inhabiting the sea floor
AAcross 52:	Word originally for the sense of touch, later for sensitivity or delicacy, especially in dealing with others
AAcross 53:	From Greek via ecclesiastical Latin for “favour, grace”, a word for a divinely conferred power or talent that came to mean attraction, charm, magnetism or personal allure
AAcross 55:	From “to burn”, a verb meaning barbecue, grill or roast; or, an archaic noun for a quarrel or commotion
AAcross 57:	Old word for a three-sided polygon, such as an isosceles example; an ancient Greek or Roman lyre or harp; or, a group of three astrological signs belonging to the same element
AAcross 58:	Source of “regal” and “royal”, a word for control, power or reign, such as that asserted over the idiomatic roost, or roast, as it was originally
AAcross 59:	An atom-smasher, catalyst, cyclotron, muscle, synchrotron, throttle or other device, substance or thing for increasing speed
AAcross 60:	Homophonous with the name of a spring onion-like scallion, a word for a crack allowing the escape of liquid, gas or figurative secret information
DDown 1:	From the Italian for “lined”, pasta in the form of fluted tubes, often served in the baked or “al forno” style
DDown 2:	A spirited shoulder-shaking jazz dance of the 1920s; a sway of the hips; or, a wobble of a car’s wheels
DDown 3:	Painted by artist Augustus John, a playwright who describes a magic rooster in Cock-a-Doodle Dandy	O'CASEY
DDown 4:	The crops/yields of farms, fields, gardens, orchards etc collectively
DDown 5:	Alluding to a flap-like “lug” of a canine, word for a folded-down corner of a page as a result of wear or from one’s purposeful bookmarking	DOG-EAR
DDown 6:	The art of composition; the skill of writing by hand; or, calligraphy
DDown 7:	French for a snail in its natural state or served in its shell with garlic butter
DDown 8:	Mercian king who ordered the construction of a huge earthwork that is preserved as a National Trail	OFFA
DDown 9:	A resident house officer, thus any trainee or apprentice; or, an occupant, such as a school boarder
DDown 12:	From a term for trivial matters or nonsense, a word for a fashion, a fleeting craze, a furore or a whim
DDown 19:	A deep greenish blue, reminiscent of the colour of the distinctive eye patches of a duck of the same name
DDown 21:	From “mine, quarry”, word for a material such as gold, that also once meant courage, spirit and vigour
DDown 23:	A close, conclusion or finale, said to be “sticky” when unpleasant
DDown 24:	Forename of the “Lady of Beauty” of the Château de Loches who was a mistress of Charles VII and first official favourite of a French king	AGNES
DDown 26:	Green pods or “gumbo”, thought to resemble ladies’ fingers
DDown 28:	A type of hard shoulder, pull-off, rest stop or verge; a railway siding; or, a mooring area along a canal or other narrow waterway	LAY-BY
DDown 29:	A structure made by a bird during nidification, hence a cosy retreat, den or snug; a shell of meringue for a filling; or, a set of tables, graduating in size
DDown 31:	From a Malay word denoting the weight of a small packet of tea, a box or jar in which to store said leaves
DDown 33:	Referred to as the “mouth of chi” in feng shui, a portal of entry; a hinged gate-like barrier/panel covering this; or, a figurative opening or opportunity
DDown 34:	Cart or “wain” one is said to be on when abstaining from alcohol
DDown 35:	A strath-like Scottish valley
DDown 37:	A slope or tilt; one’s angle or point of view; bias in an article; or, a gybe
DDown 40:	A side issue/incidental matter; a free pass to a tournament’s next round by virtue of having no opponent; a type of extra in cricket; or, an informal way of saying “farewell, toodle-pip”
DDown 41:	Related to “abominable”, word for an augury, such as an auspice drawn from birdwatching/ornithoscopy
DDown 43:	Flying —, Sir Nigel Gresley’s LNER Class A3 that was the first locomotive to clock 100 mph and the first to circumnavigate the globe
DDown 44:	From “to stand apart”, word for apartness or difference; the space between two points; or, aloofness
DDown 46:	Forename of Sir Christopher Wren or Sir John Vanbrugh’s collaborator known as the “devil’s architect” for his use of satanic or pagan symbols
DDown 47:	Ranging in colour from rose to vibrant pink and strawberry, Norway’s national gemstone, “rosaline”
DDown 49:	From the Greek for “viper”, for its use in folk medicine as an antidote to snakebites, the genus of the wild purple bloom called viper’s bugloss
DDown 50:	Any one of the gaseous globules forming the “sparkle” in “fizz”; or, an ephemeral iridescent globe of air, enclosed within a film of soapsuds
DDown 51:	From the Latin for “sew”, a seam; the stitching of a wound; the thread etc used for this; or, a line of union
DDown 52:	First woman to fly in a free-floating hot-air balloon; or, a dialect word for a stick for stirring broth or porridge
DDown 54:	Water grass used for thatching
DDown 56:	Referred to in an idiomatic phrase regarding meddling, a blade, paddle, scull, spoon or sweep