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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 2nd September 2023
There are 28 across clues and 34 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 2nd September 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: “Painter of light” whose famous 1842 oil on canvas, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, was dismissed by a critic of his day as “soapsuds and whitewash”
AAcross 12: From the Latin for “to cook”, a French word for “kitchen” used to describe a manner, method or style of cooking; the dishes/food prepared; or, a cooking department
AAcross 13: Sometimes peeled in a rumbler, a murphy, spud or tattie with a skin described as a jacket, especially when baked; or, slang for a loafer, Lollard or lounger, lazing about in a state of vegetable-like inertia
AAcross 14: French word for a small ornamental box, drageoir or lidded jar for chocolates, sugared almonds or other sweets; or, confectionery used as a table decoration at a wedding party or other celebration
AAcross 15: From Late Latin for “a thousand years”, a word for a millennium; or, the aggregate of 1,000 things
AAcross 16: Symbolised by a crane, one of the constellations named after a bird, along with Aquila the Eagle, Columba the Dove, Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan and others
AAcross 17: A species of purple bellflower whose common name, “Rapunzel”, shared with lamb’s lettuce, is given to a long-haired maiden in the eponymous fairy tale
AAcross 19: Chinese preserve of citron, ginger, orange peel etc in syrup; a piccalilli-like relish of vegetables in mustard; or, a spitz-type blue-black-tongued breed of Han dynasty dog that found favour with Queen VictoriaCHOW-CHOW
AAcross 21: Paired with “stone”, a mushroom-shaped arrangement traditionally supporting a granary or a seasonal hayrick, but today more often found decorating a garden or yard
AAcross 24: General word for eye-spotted earthy-coloured satyrid butterflies, including the gatekeepers, graylings, heaths, ringlets, Scotch arguses and speckled woods
AAcross 26: From Latin for “promise solemnly” or “betroth”, one’s husband or wife
AAcross 29: A pot for “poivre”; a building, tower, turret etc resembling this; or, as one word, an old gun with revolving barrels, or a buttress projecting from the left-hand wall in Eton fivesPEPPER BOX
AAcross 31: A coastal fog or haar; a heraldic charge representing the meshes of a fishing net; a meander or Greek key pattern; or, one of the ridges across a guitar, lute or viol’s fingerboard
AAcross 33: From “to merge”, word meaning “cobble together”, “manipulate facts or figures” or “humbug!” that is also the name of a soft sweet, based on a mixture of butter, cream and sugar
AAcross 35: Word for any dog originally, later a more specific canine bred for hunting, such as a beagle; a contemptible or despicable person; a pursuer in a paper chase; or, any assiduous seeker
AAcross 37: A forename of athlete Liddell, comedian Morecambe, musician Clapton or travel writer Newby
AAcross 38: An adjective meaning beautiful, delicate, delicious, discerning, fastidious, fine, outstanding or poignant; or, a noun for a dandy
AAcross 41: A painter, musician, sculptor, vedutista or other creative person; or, one skilled in a particular activity, occupation or task generally
AAcross 43: Colloquial word for a violin, especially in reference to its use as a folk instrument; a violinist; a petty swindle; or, a manually tricky task
AAcross 44: Thought to be onomatopoeic of galloping hooves, word for a gallop or rapid ride; or, a hunting cry at full tilt
AAcross 47: Described in Giorgio Vasari’s “Lives” collection of biographical accounts, a polymath of the Italian Renaissance, born in or near Vinci
AAcross 49: From “fool”, a word for vanity in dress/manners; folly; or, affectations, clothes, obsessions etc befitting a beau, coxcomb, popinjay or swell
AAcross 51: From “cast, throw”, a reckoning of four cod, herrings, oysters etc; the threads crossed by a loom’s weft or woof; a distortion in the shape of something; or, a bias or mental twist
AAcross 52: From Old English for “hook”, the sport or pastime of fishing with a rod, line and a baited lure, such as a fly
AAcross 54: Leather travel bag opening into two equal parts; or, from the idea of two meanings packed into one word, Lewis Carroll’s term for a “blend”
AAcross 56: From “corn”, a whole grain of wheat or other cereal; the edible central part of a fruit stone, nut or seed; by extension, a nucleus; or, the essential or core part of anything
AAcross 57: From “stretch out again, slacken”, a word for acquittance, emancipation, liberation, remission, a setting free or other real or figurative unshackling
AAcross 58: From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s
DDown 1: A sudden emergence of “Sol” from behind the clouds; or, a brooch, jewel, motif or ornament resembling said “daystar” and its rays
DDown 2: French word for a pineapple; or, said bromeliaceous fruit’s genus
DDown 3: Defensive garniture of mail or metal forming a panoply; a shell, carapace or other protective layer, reminiscent of this; or, military vehicles collectively
DDown 4: From the Greek for “house”, a word for the management of a household originally, later the administration of a country/community’s finances
DDown 5: Spotted hexahedrons cast/rolled to determine the outcome of chance in cards, gambling or life; a game played with these; or, small cubes of food
DDown 6: One of a bunch, coil, company, flight, knob, raft or trip of the ducks with a name similar to a dovelike squab
DDown 7: Male fowls whose ostentatious courtly swishing of their eye-spotted fans/trains inspired the pavane; or, vainglorious strutting individuals
DDown 8: Early ripening or “precocious” peach-like downy drupe fruits, used to make a variety of amaretto or jam
DDown 9: Source of “tweezers”, a word for a case fitted with miniature implements for daily use, including the aforesaid, bodkins, needles, penknife, scissors, thimble and such like
DDown 10: From the Latin for “diligence”, an atelier, bottega or workshop for painting or photography; or, a place to practise dance, film or record
DDown 18: Japanese lacquer box traditionally accessorising a kimono, complete with a netsuke, obi and ojime
DDown 20: A clique, congregation, crush, gang, huddle, throng or other multitude; or, the rabble/varletry
DDown 22: Related to “dive”, a word for a plunge; a bath; a quick swim; a hollow; a candle; a sag; a pickpocket; or, sauce in which to dunk crisps/crudités
DDown 23: From the Latin for “a wan or yellow colour”, word originally meaning pale and dismal, but now unpleasantly bright in colour, garish, loud or vivid
DDown 25: From “watch, guard”, a child protected by a guardian; or, a room in a hospital where patients are watched over by nurses
DDown 27: A hunting term for a dog’s faculty of smell that came to mean perfume or any pleasant aroma; or, a trail
DDown 28: A pair of oxen joined by a frame of the same name; or, by extension, a burden, bondage, a couple or a tie
DDown 30: From Greek for “upper air”, the fifth classical element from whose name a word for airy, celestial, gossamer, heavenly or spiritual derives
DDown 32: From “to weave”, the words collectively “woven” together to form a book; or, the tome of writings itself
DDown 33: Word, from the name of a nature goddess, for animal life collectively; or, a book detailing said zoology
DDown 34: The Secret Life of Bees author
DDown 36: From “one”, a word for alliance, harmony, fusion or wedlock
DDown 39: Backdrop; a collection; kit; a period of play in darts/tennis; or, posture
DDown 40: Sound of a smack, such as that imitated by a harlequin’s double lath; or, theatrical grease paint/pancake
DDown 42: From “cake”, a Spanish omelette; a Mexican pancake-like flatbread; or, a triangle of the latter, as a nacho
DDown 43: A ranarium of “grenouilles”; or, said toad-like batrachians collectively
DDown 45: Often prepared by a vigneron, the tart green extract of unripe crab-apples, grapes or other fruit, used as a source of sourness in medieval kitchens and in cookery today
DDown 46: Dutch painter of The Milkmaid
DDown 48: Glassy coating for cloisonné; nail varnish; or, a tooth’s natural veneer
DDown 49: From Old Norse for “horse’s lip”, a plug in the mouthpiece of a flageolet, penny/tin whistle or recorder
DDown 50: Meaning “instrument” in Sanskrit, a mandala-like diagram of triangles and lotus petals, used as a tantric tool
DDown 51: A forcible tug or twist, hence a spanner for gripping and turning
DDown 53: Instrument referred to as a tam-tam when used in an orchestra
DDown 55: A spell of interpreting written or printed words; or, matter suitable for said translation, such as a book