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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 16th September 2023
There are 32 across clues and 30 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 16th September 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: With an ant, butterfly fish, horse race, woodpecker and the world’s largest flower named after him, a statesman and naturalist who founded Singapore, the Zoological Society of London and London Zoo
AAcross 10: An old word for a fox; an informal name for a boxer; an animal’s footprint; or, a little carlin with a curled tail and a wrinkled face, whose snorts and snuffles inspired its collective name “grumble”
AAcross 11: A rover or wayfarer who enjoys long walks in the countryside; a climbing or trailing plant, such as a multiflora rose with clusters of small fragrant blooms; or, a babbler, lacking organisation in speech or writing
AAcross 13: A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley
AAcross 14: From Latin for “fellow servant”, a French word used to refer to a hotel or apartment building’s residential bellhop, caretaker, doorkeeper, hall porter, janitor or warden
AAcross 15: From “heal again”, a word for an answer, antidote, medicine, panacea, restorative, solution, treatment or any other means of curing a disease or counteracting, redressing or repairing damage, evil, fault or loss
AAcross 16: French word formerly used to refer to imperfect precious stones, later to the small magnifying glasses of gemologists, jewellers, rock enthusiasts or watchmakers
AAcross 17: Word, from a term for a member of a priestly caste of ancient Persia with unusual powers, for sorcery, thaumaturgy, witchcraft or wizardry; art of conjuring, illusionism or trickery; or, charm or wonder generally
AAcross 18: A knick-knack or trinket, such as a vase or a Staffordshire figurine; a musical flourish embellishing a melody; anything serving to add beauty, credit, grace or honour; or, said decorations collectively
AAcross 20: Mathematician, theoretical physicist and designer of an aperiodic tiling system based on his work with black holes, whose father, Lionel, was a chess problemistPENROSE
AAcross 22: A shoe of untanned leather formerly worn in parts of Scotland and Ireland for traipsing over rough ground; a sturdy brown Oxford-like shoe patterned with perforations; or, a mellifluous lilting Irish accent
AAcross 24: Alluding to the body’s vital blood pump, an adjective meaning cordial, enthusiastic, jovial, robust, sincere, substantial or warm; or, a noun for a vigorous outdoorsy sporty type
AAcross 27: The characteristic loud harsh cry or heehaw of a donkey or mule; or, any discordant or grating sound
AAcross 29: From “iron rod, nail”, an ancient Greek silver coin originally in the form of a metal spit, of which six or a handful made a drachma
AAcross 30: A blast; a breath of fresh air; a gust; an improvised jazz jam; or, a toot or blare on a horn, trumpet or whistle
AAcross 32: Dramatist and author whose works include Noises Off and novel Headlong, based on the supposed discovery of a lost painting from Pieter Bruegel’s Months seriesFRAYN
AAcross 34: Cured meat known in Italian as pancetta and in French as lard
AAcross 36: The graceful “Milan royal”, gliding and soaring on thermals; or, named after said bird of prey, a floating or flying toy/object, such as the rokkaku designed for aerial combat
AAcross 37: Any one of the vexillological objects forming bunting or a hoist, or used in Captain Frederick Marryat’s system of maritime signalling
AAcross 38: From “coquus”, also the source of “concoct” and “biscuit”, a word for a chef, culinary artist or magirist skilled in baking, preserving, roasting and other methods of food preparation
AAcross 40: From the Latin for “spring at, jump upon”, a word for an attack or military assault originally, later an affront, slight or other contemptuous remark
AAcross 42: City on the Wear with a Norman castle occupied by the Venerable Bede’s bones since 1022 and by university students since 1837
AAcross 43: Coop or poultry farm where chickens/fowl are reared and kept
AAcross 46: Rivals of the Lancastrians during the Wars of the RosesYORKISTS
AAcross 48: Based on the Latin focus, meaning “domestic hearth”, a French word for a greenroom; a theatre’s area for gathering during intervals; or, any anteroom, hall or vestibule
AAcross 49: Besoms or brushes named after the gorse-like plants whose twigs were once used to make said sweepers
AAcross 50: From the Latin for “little body”, a bodice or waspie; stays; or, by extension, a restriction or limitation, such as that imposed by the Bank of England to control bank lending
AAcross 52: A rollercoaster; or, the US name for Ursa Major’s asterism also known as Charles’s Wain or the PloughBIG DIPPER
AAcross 53: A traditionally wooden board upon which to convey crockery, food or tea things; or, a similar shallow receptacle for papers
AAcross 54: Plant resembling a miniature water lily, related to water soldier
AAcross 55: A cereal grass with a wild variety referred to in a phrase that alludes to dissipation, promiscuity or wildness in one’s youth
AAcross 56: Word, based on the Latin for “be allowed” and subject of a poem by W H Davies, for one’s free time
DDown 1: A gathering for a select few following a larger more formal event such as a concert or film premièreAFTER-PARTY
DDown 2: Cut portions of bread, cake, pizza etc; shares generally; or, broad spatulas for lifting flat foods, such as fish fillets, fried eggs or pancakes
DDown 3: “Harbour wave” mainly occurring in the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire”; or, a figurative large unstoppable surge
DDown 4: Lively spaniels originally bred for flushing or rising game birds from copses; cows about to calf
DDown 5: A toadstool, such as the red-and-white “fairytale” fly amanita
DDown 6: One’s darling, dear or sweetheart; a fisherman’s knot; herb Paris; or, also called a quatrefoil, the architectural equivalent of a four-leaf clover
DDown 7: From “unfading”, a fabled never-withering flower symbolising immortality; a plant with long-lasting crimson tassels; the purplish-red colour of said flowers; or, its grain
DDown 8: Mollusc with a vicelike grip
DDown 9: Author of a series of adventure stories based on four “Swallows” and their sailing rivals, the “Amazons”RANSOME
DDown 12: Sculptor whose male nude The Age of Bronze caused a scandal because of the naturalistic portrayal or treatment of the naked figure
DDown 19: Meaning “ocean”, the title heroine of a Disney film set in PolynesiaMOANA
DDown 21: Utensil with a wooden type traditionally presented as a booby prize at Cambridge, hence a fool
DDown 23: From “bosom”, a trough between waves; the depth of the sea; an abyss, bay, chasm, whirlpool or other deep place; or, a figurative gap or divide
DDown 25: Codeword following Sierra; a sultry dance of seduction, originally of despair; or, alluding to a clementine-like fruit, a deep shade of orange
DDown 26: Modelled on a hay-lifting tool, a tined utensil with a long-handled type on which to toast bread, crumpets or marshmallows before an open fire
DDown 28: The redbreast or ruddock
DDown 31: A welt/whip mark on skin; a row of knitted stitches; a horizontal band of a woven basket; or, a rib in corduroy
DDown 32: From “flight”, a contrapuntal composition in which a number of parts/voices enter successively in imitation of each other; or, a psychogenic flight from reality
DDown 33: Celestial object that is born within the collapse of a molecular cloud and that dies during a supernova
DDown 35: An imitative call of a mother to her chicks; or, any similar sound expressing fussy concern
DDown 38: Word taken directly from Latin for an association, business partnership or fellowship; or, in marriage law, a husband or wife’s conjugal rights
DDown 39: A mythical or horticultural maze; or, anything intricately complicated
DDown 41: A piece of laboratory glassware for in vitro experiments/processesTEST TUBE
DDown 42: A bird’s act of rolling in sand or a flower bed as a preening ritualDUST-BATH
DDown 44: Noun originally for an act of arranging a ship’s cargo, later reversed to mean “an unsystematic or untidy search”; or, jumble for a sale
DDown 45: From “ripe olives”, the miniature fleshy subdivisions of blackberries, raspberries and other etaerios
DDown 47: Of a rocker switch or toggle, set to either one of only two positions; or, a term for a cyclical relationship, that is neither continuous nor steadyON-OFF
DDown 48: A sea dog or “arc-en-ciel blanc” produced as a result of sunlight shining through dense mistFOG-BOW
DDown 49: Mattel fashion doll with a vast wardrobe and the counterpart Ken
DDown 51: A bite to eat, dram of drink, drop of rain or other small amount; a pip on a domino; or, a jam, pickle or stew