Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 7th October 2023

There are 30 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 7th October 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Esteemed by Victorian artist Louis Wain and portrayed in his books, drawings, illustrations and paintings, felines also called grimalkins, kitties, moggies, tabbies, toms and torties, kept as pets or mousers
AAcross 12:	Name of a species of betony, prunella or valerian that refers to the reputed medicinal, restorative or therapeutic qualities of said herbs
AAcross 13:	Meaning “learned, skilful”, an Italian word for a consummately talented musician; one with masterly skill in any other creative pursuit; or, a collector, connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art, curiosities and such like
AAcross 14:	Any one of the letters of the futhork or ancient Germanic alphabet, devised for carving into wood or stone; a modern interpretation of one of these for divination; a mystery or secret; or, a magic symbol or spell
AAcross 15:	A fragrant Oriental lily; a fish with upward-looking oculi; an astronomer or astrologer; a daydreamer; or, a horse that carries its head towards the sky when galloping
AAcross 16:	Apples suitable for consuming raw, as opposed to “cookers”, such as Blenheim Oranges or Bramleys, more suited to baking or stewing
AAcross 17:	Word, from Old French for “to bite”, for a mouthful or choice scrap of food; a dainty; a small child or person; or, a modicum generally
AAcross 18:	Wallaroos; or, 100 cent single currency coins used by countries including Austria, France and Italy
AAcross 19:	From Greek for “back, anew” and “letter”, a word or phrase formed by rearranging those of another, such as astronomer/moon starer, listen/silent or the Morse code/here come dots
AAcross 21:	A mistletoe root; a US word for a doughnut; an unbuoyant person or thing, such as a weight; or, part of fishing-tackle that, with “hook” and “line”, is referenced in a phrase used to mean “completely”
AAcross 24:	From “to twist”, a sharp witty reply, hurled back; or, a chemistry flask with a twisted shape
AAcross 26:	French word first used in English to describe the mass of tiny bubbles on the surface of a glass of champagne, later for a light frothy whipped pudding, reminiscent of this
AAcross 29:	A romper-like all-in-one in which a baby or toddler naps or snoozes
AAcross 31:	From “baskets, panniers”, a word for V-shaped troughs on sticks for carrying bricks/mortar on shoulders; bookmakers’ money bags; tall coal scuttles; or, pewterers’ blowpipes
AAcross 33:	A person who crafts beer
AAcross 35:	Two-ply wool yarn used for embroidery and other fancywork, notably the Bayeux Tapestry
AAcross 37:	From Latin for “kitchen, cooking stove”, an oven for calcining lime, firing pottery or for drying the hops and malt used by the artisan referred to in 33 Across
AAcross 38:	Couples whose openly romantic behaviour parrots the affectionate colourful avians of the same name
AAcross 41:	Latin word for “row, chain”, used in English to describe a succession or sequence of things, such as books, games, programmes or stamps
AAcross 43:	From “shake to and fro”, word for hurly-burly; a swindle or fraud; or, a lively disco dance of the 1970s
AAcross 44:	Meaning “pictures of the floating world”, a school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life in colourful paintings or woodblock prints	UKIYO-E
AAcross 47:	An assembly or union of athletes, directors, hounds/hunters, minds, Quakers or shareholders, for example; or, a mathematical intersection
AAcross 48:	Citrus fruit with a scent echoed in a variety of balm, basil, geranium, grass, pelargonium, thyme and verbena
AAcross 49:	Word for a flourish on a trumpet, yet derived from “beat a drum”
AAcross 51:	Term, thought to derive from firefighters engaging in practice drills without water, for a rehearsal	DRY RUN
AAcross 53:	Informal word for a hack, journo, pen-pusher or other writer; part of a wool-carding machine; or, Canadian dialect for a jotter or a notebook
AAcross 54:	A stake formerly marking a favourable starting position in a horse race, hence the most advantageous position at the start of a motor race
AAcross 55:	A forename of mathematician Fibonacci, who is noted for his number sequence reflected in spiral patterns observed in flowers, fruits, hurricanes, pine cones, seed heads and shells
AAcross 56:	Name of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s former seaside retreat or hideaway on the Isle of Wight
AAcross 57:	Ornamental fabric, such as that made by hand with a small shuttle in the art of tatting; or, a shoestring
DDown 1:	From Latin for “story, speak”, a word used to mean legendary, mythical or celebrated in tales; astonishing or beyond belief; or, wonderful
DDown 2:	Quivering arbors of the British countryside, whose Latin name literally means “trembling poplar”
DDown 3:	Based on domina, “mistress”, an old or poetic word for a maiden, source of a title referring to a French “Miss”
DDown 4:	Something buoyant in air/water; one of the muscae volitantes, or “fluttering flies”, before one’s retinas; a person who drifts from one thing to another; a blunder; or, an Australian meat pie, served in a bowl of pea soup
DDown 5:	A plantation of Camellia sinensis or, an open-air restaurant or roji serving cha, chai, matcha or other infusions of said plant’s dried leaves	TEA GARDEN
DDown 6:	Word for bursts of light, fiercely burning fires or areas of brilliant colour from which brightly coloured striped club jackets derive their name
DDown 7:	Meteorological term for a cloud-covered sky, hence a synonym of dull, gloomy or melancholy
DDown 8:	In agroforestry, forest or woodland managed on a commercial basis	TREE FARM
DDown 9:	Word for an apple core, stump/trunk or withered cabbage stem that also refers to a litter’s smallest pig
DDown 10:	A genus of wild ginger with small pitcher-like flowers, hence its nickname, “little jugs”
DDown 20:	From a term for a hawk’s act of erecting/shaking its feathers, a word used to mean awaken, excite, kindle, provoke, put into action or stir up
DDown 22:	A nest of pheasants; or, nickname of politician Aneurin Bevan
DDown 23:	From the Dutch for “donkey”, a chevalet, frame or tripod for bearing the burden of an artist’s canvas
DDown 25:	Polynesian for an island-hopper or rover, used by Herman Melville as the title of his sequel to Typee	OMOO
DDown 27:	From Old English for “stallion” or “stud”, an archaic or literary word for a swift spirited horse or charger
DDown 28:	Scots word for a jousting ground originally, later for a stretch of ice set aside for curling or skating
DDown 30:	Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don’t Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales	LURIE
DDown 32:	From “to look, behold”, a word for a demonstration, display, exhibition, parade, performance or spectacle
DDown 33:	A crack, fracture or split; a brief pause for elevenses, fourses or tiffin; a sudden rush to escape; a change in the weather; or, a caesura
DDown 34:	Symbol +, opposite to – minus; a positive quality/quantity; or, a bonus or perk, as opposed to a negative
DDown 36:	Author of a classic tale based on barn spider Charlotte spinning messages in her web to save her pig friend Wilbur from slaughter
DDown 39:	Trailing evergreen “Hedera”, once thought to prevent drunkenness, from its association with the god of wine and intoxication, Dionysus, and for its apparent choking of grapevines
DDown 40:	From the Latin for “lead”, weights of said element or other metal placed at the ends of lines for determining verticality or the depths of water	PLUMB BOBS
DDown 42:	Threadmakers; spiders or their silk-producing organs; whirling bookstands; “doctors” who weave favourable propaganda/publicity; or, revolving lures for catching trout
DDown 43:	Term used to describe the most enjoyable, memorable or significant part of an experience or event	HIGH SPOT
DDown 45:	An old-fashioned term for the originally moustache-darkening cosmetic mascara, today used for enhancing one’s lashes	EYE-BLACK
DDown 46:	A deer stag’s deciduous rutting horns with velvet when growing and points indicating said beast’s status as an imperial, monarch or royal
DDown 47:	A beacon, buoy or other indicator; a thick felt-tip pen; a scorekeeper in billiards or squash; an attendance recorder; or, a counter in a game
DDown 48:	French for a melodious yellow bird, whose common name, “oriole”, derives from Latin for “golden”
DDown 49:	Either of two brass or steel loops on a horse’s harness through which driving reins pass; or, a ring on a dog’s collar for attaching a lead or chain
DDown 50:	Small dome crowning a lantern; its soffit; a spherical vault; or, a rotunda
DDown 52:	A Latin word for a frog that is also Sanskrit for a Rajput prince