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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 23rd September 2023
There are 32 across clues and 30 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 23rd September 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: From the Latin for “dove”, the flower, “granny’s bonnet”, with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an eagle’s talons
AAcross 10: A device for converting cream or milk into butter by means of stirring and turning; a milk-can, suggestive of said apparatus; anything that mixes or agitates; or, the turnover of a business’s customers
AAcross 11: Traditionally made by a perruquier, a chevelure, postiche, spencer, syrup or toupee; or, pertaining to the “full-bottomed” peruke of a judge, a slang word or nickname for said official
AAcross 13: Something slender and supple, such as a cutting, osier, sapling, stick, or switch; a baton, caduceus or rod of a conductor, conjurer, diviner, fairy or magician; a mark in archery; or, a “spoolie” for applying mascara
AAcross 14: Esteemed for their range of trills, warbles, whistles and other melodious vocalisations, the “Oscines” or dawn choristers including the blackbirds, chiffchaffs, great tits, nightingales, robins, thrushes and wrens
AAcross 15: One who attends to the tackle of a sailing ship; a parachute packer; a roughneck; a stage hand or other worker skilled in setting up pulleys, scaffolding or theatrical equipment; or, an artist’s long-haired sable brush
AAcross 16: From the Latin for “red”, a ruddy-brown, rust or tawny colour, like that of the coat of a red fox/squirrel
AAcross 17: Word for something rapid, such as a “devil bird”, “screech martin”, fast-flying moth, carding machine’s main cylinder or a reel for winding a skein of wool or other yarn
AAcross 18: Paired with “catalogue”, a French term for an annotated systematic index or listing of an artist’s oeuvre in a collection or exhibition
AAcross 20: Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain’s first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined “serendipity”
AAcross 22: Latin word for “shield” that refers to a large oblong Roman example of said piece of armour; a constellation; or, one of the protective plates of an armadillo, insect or turtle
AAcross 24: From Old French for “pilgrim’s pouch or scrip”, a word for an official or soldier’s sash for carrying things originally, later for a length/square of cloth for the neck or shoulders
AAcross 27: Material blackened by burning; an informal word for tea; a trout-like salmonid fish; an odd job or piece of housework; or, an old-fashioned word for a domestic assistant
AAcross 29: From Latin for “booty”, an old word for plunder that came to mean game, quarry, spreagh or other victim
AAcross 30: Flower, named after a rainbow goddess, cultivated by artist Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris and depicted in many of his paintings, including The Serpentine Pot
AAcross 32: Intake of oxygen and expulsion of carbon dioxide during respiration; one such inhalation or exhalation; a sound so produced; or, life itself
AAcross 34: From the Greek for “engine of war”, an old hand-turned device with rollers for wringing wet laundry; or, a rolling-press for smoothing linen
AAcross 36: Word, from Old French for “clothe in white” or “whitewash” , for clay, mud or plaster applied to wattles; a smear or splodge of something sticky; or, a crude or unskilled painting
AAcross 37: A current, such as the rise or advancing of a tide, as opposed to its ebb; or, by extension, any continuous or fluent stream of something, such as people, progress, wine or words
AAcross 38: Given to debates over quantum theory with fellow physicist Einstein, a Danish Nobel laureate who was a mentor and idol of Oppenheimer
AAcross 40: A burnt sooty part of a candlewick; powdered tobacco inhaled through a nostril; a pinch of such; resentment, expressed with a snort; a heeltap; or, any offensive/worthless residue
AAcross 42: From Hindi for “glass”, a rigid bracelet, such as any one of those forming a set or “chooda” worn by an Indian bride on her wedding day
AAcross 43: Farm vehicle, sometimes with a “tortoise/hare” gearbox; or, with “Chelsea”, a pejorative nickname for a 4 x 4 when used in an urban area
AAcross 46: From “jut, project”, a word for distinction, fame or high rank; a height or a hill; an anatomical protuberance; a cardinal’s title; or, a shade of purple
AAcross 48: A crosier, shepherd’s crook or walking-stick; a set of five parallel lines for musical notation; or, a body of employees/teachers collectively
AAcross 49: A logical impasse, paradox or state of puzzlement in philosophy; or, in rhetoric, a declaration of doubt
AAcross 50: From “purée”, for the freshly grated apples in Bircher’s original “Apfeldiätspeise”, a breakfast dish of rolled oats with dried fruit and nuts
AAcross 52: A person who dries, grows, sells or practises with medicinal plants including allheal, arnica, camomile and coltsfoot; or, an early botanist
AAcross 53: A brand; a crack; a piece cut off; a sharp downward blow with an axe, cleaver or hand; diced food; a slice of lamb or pork; or, ocean waves
AAcross 54: Rembrandt’s first pupil and one who became a fastidious painter noted for scenes of domestic interiors and minute attention to detail; or, a Chinese unit roughly equal to a peckDOU
AAcross 55: From “hurdle”, a grate or gridiron; an element in a cooker that radiates heat downwards onto cheese, fish, gratin, meat etc; or, a dish of broiled food
AAcross 56: Italian word for “growing” by which a musician understands a passage must gradually increase in loudness; thus, any climax or peak of noise
DDown 1: Informal word for a large heavy boot or shoe; a country bumpkin, peasant, pleb or yokel; an awkward, clumsy or foolish person; or, a wheatear
DDown 2: From “to cut”, the interpolation of one word into the middle of another word, as in “abso-blooming-lutely”
DDown 3: Virtuosity in “tickling the ivories”
DDown 4: Decorative drawn-thread work, openwork or “gegaufing” applied to the edges of clothing, handkerchiefs, household linen, napery etc
DDown 5: From Latin for “to chant”, stress on a note, syllable or word; the diacritic indicating this; one’s modulation or brogue; or, any distinguishing mark
DDown 6: Dialect for a hurdy-gurdy; music poorly played; or, any out of tune or crudely constructed instrument
DDown 7: Humanesque robots/automata
DDown 8: A miniature branch, resembled by a knobbly savoury wheat snack
DDown 9: A boat-shaped deep-fried masa dough tortilla/taco, named after a gondola-like Mexican vessel
DDown 12: Colour of living grass/plants or of unripe corn, hence its association with environmentalism or naïvety
DDown 19: Latin word for “egg-shaped”
DDown 21: From “glide, slip”, a word for a decline in standards; an error; a failure in attention or memory; a moral fall; the passage of time; or, a stumble
DDown 23: A name for the purple-flowered common vetch; or, unladen weight
DDown 25: A polecat; or, a paintbrush of said foumart’s fur of the same name
DDown 26: A curve in a backbone, banana, boomerang, bow, bridge or brook
DDown 28: Craniums, such as those of horses one “gives” when allowing them to gallop freely; or, a coin’s obverse
DDown 31: A flatfish named for its shape, reminiscent of the bottom of a foot
DDown 32: An anchor at the front of a ship; a shady recess under trees in a garden or woodland; a picturesque country cottage or summerhouse; or, from “farmer”, a jack in euchre or 500
DDown 33: Theatre director whose name is used as rhyming slang for a university degree graded 2:1NUNN
DDown 35: A type of boson, suitably named for it is the “adhesive” that binds a quark to form a proton or neutron
DDown 38: Word, from Italian for “mouthful”, for bitesized balls of mozzarella
DDown 39: An old poetic word for enjoyment; or, a secluded part of a large garden, laid out with shaded walks, statuary, trees etc, for one’s leisure
DDown 41: An artisan’s tools and small articles for cobbling or jewellery-making; a conclusion of research; a verdict of judicial enquiry; or, buttons, zips and other such accessories
DDown 42: Named after the Duke of Marlborough’s seat in Woodstock, a chestnut-and-white Cavalier King Charles spaniel or a golden variety of English heritage apple
DDown 44: Japanese ornament for display
DDown 45: Functionary such as a bailiff, board member, bobby or bureaucrat
DDown 47: A hillock; a heap of earth, laundry, mash, rice or anything else; or, from the Latin for “world”, a heraldic orb
DDown 48: A rouleau of paper/parchment
DDown 49: From “join battle”, a word for an assault or onset; by extension, the commencement of any task; or, the offensive part in any game/sport
DDown 51: Broth, consommé or potage one is figuratively in when in hot water