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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 15th March 2025
There are 30 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 15th March 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: Novelist whose authorial mentions of baked apples, Bath buns, picnics, rout-cakes, saddle of mutton, “whipt” syllabub and the like offer a glimpse into the food and dining habits of the Regency era in which her novels of irony and sensibility are set
AAcross 12: A variant of “clandestine, hidden, secret”, thus a blanket, book jacket, canopy of trees, carpet of woodland flowers, layer of leaves, lid, philatelic envelope, sheet of stratus clouds, thicket for game, veil, whitewash or other concealing/protecting
AAcross 13: Pale blue campanula, cuckoo’s shoe, fairy’s chime, lady’s thimble or wild hyacinth of Scotland whose name in question refers to its apparent abundance in habitats frequented by husks of jack rabbits or leverets
AAcross 14: Scots word for springtime or seaweed; a hunt cry for “watch out”; pottery, as in Delft or Wedgwood; or, in combining form with iron, kitchen, table etc, a term for manufactured articles of a specified material/type
AAcross 15: Italian for “starling” that also refers to an improvised three-line “little turn”, folk verse, poem or rhyme beginning with an invocation of a flower
AAcross 16: The golden-bloomed herb “leopard’s-bane”; or, a balm or tincture of said plant’s dried flowers that, like comfrey and calendula, is used as a traditional or folk remedy for aches, bruises or sprains
AAcross 17: From “one that knows”, a word for a carpenter’s square first, later a geometric L-shaped figure, indicator, sundial’s shadow caster or other tool that helps us to know something
AAcross 18: Accipitrine bird of prey with eyes so sharp it symbolises clarity of vision, far-seeing wisdom and insight
AAcross 20: Coops or cages containing clucking cacophonies of chooks or their clutches of chattering chicksHEN HOUSES
AAcross 22: Détective who likes order, method and a petit déjeuner of toast cut into neat little squares and eggs of identical size – he has an egg-shaped head, a brilliantly waxed moustache and is the brainchild of the “Queen of Crime”POIROT
AAcross 25: Old word for a shallot-like bulb; or, an alliaceous herb with hollow scapes and its name rooted in “onion”
AAcross 26: Word for a walled garden of delight, pleasure ground or the garden of Eden, thus heaven, Shangri-la or any other place or state of bliss
AAcross 28: From a reduplication of an old word for “click, clack, snap”, term for a petty trick or trifling deception first, later a cheap ornament, item of bric-à-brac, worthless trinket or other trifleKNICK-KNACK
AAcross 30: Versatile word with meanings including an aerofoil, a bill, a cigarette, a collar insignia, a dose of LSD, a flap, a fob, a loop of a theatrical curtain, the drape itself, musical notation, a pill, a red-top, a ring pull and a tally
AAcross 31: Word for masons’ mauls for setting stones in place first, later auctioneers’ or judges’ mallets brought down when actions, rulings, sale ends, verdicts, and so forth are set in stone
AAcross 33: Cinder tray beneath a grateASH-PAN
AAcross 34: A bob, bounce or skip, as in a fishing fly on the surface of water; or, a sound made when bouncing, running or skipping in plimsolls
AAcross 36: A very fine pilus-width line in calligraphy, penmanship or writingHAIR STROKE
AAcross 37: Mysterious Greco-Roman bronze sculpture of a young boy meticulously removing a thorn from his foot, whose true story may never be knownSPINARIO
AAcross 40: From “belt”, word for a measure of roundness, aka circumference; the belly-band or cinch of a saddle; size or bulk; or, one’s waistline, especially when large or barrel-like
AAcross 41: A wild untamed beast; or, a bandit, desperado, exile, fugitive, pariah, Robin Hood or other banished brigand living beyond legal bounds
AAcross 43: A type of lyrical artisan who musically “forges” ballads, melodies, pop standards, shanties, tunes or other compositions specifically for voice
AAcross 46: Cryptogamous plant esteemed by pteridomaniacs and roosting nightjars and whose furled fronds are depicted at the heads of fiddles
AAcross 48: A sailing or voyage to and fro
AAcross 51: Chap or fellow distinguished by his work as a collier, digger, hatter, sawyer or tributer in a mine, quarry, shaft or other subterranean excavation
AAcross 52: Homestead whose rectangular structure is reflected in the shape of a rustic loaf of bread traditionally baked in the kitchen of said rural dwelling
AAcross 54: Word for pins or bolts of wood, thus wooden legs or teeth; or, spillikins whose final positions on cribbage-boards signify the end of the game, thus metaphorically the end of life
AAcross 55: Argot, cant, idiom, jargon, lingo or other particular manner of lexicalised “speaking” or way with words
AAcross 56: Bengali curry named for its method of “frying” ingredients in a masala
AAcross 57: Word used to denote an engine, mower, roundabout, telephone dial or washing line “turning like a wheel”
DDown 1: Artists’ fine spindle-tree charcoal; a drawing executed with this; or, fossilised “mother of coal” carbon
DDown 2: A ribbon of news; a strip of confetti; or, a ray or wisp of auroral light
DDown 3: Two or more notes/voices heard as “one sound”, thus agreement or harmony, musically or otherwise
DDown 4: Onomatopoeic word echoing the sound of a quick effortless splash, spritz, spurt or squirt of liquid, thus used to mean a cinch, doddle or piece of cake; or, a fizzy drink such as lemonade
DDown 5: Door-to-door cosmetic brand named after the Bard’s birthplace
DDown 6: From “goblin, imp, little chap”, word for a buffoon, jester or waggish fellow that came to mean dryly witty in a curious, odd or quaint manner
DDown 7: Shiny plating metal whose name, from the Greek for “colour”, refers to its many colourful compounds
DDown 8: One who braids, interweaves, twines or twists flowers and foliage into chaplets, circlets, coronets, crowns or other botanical halos
DDown 9: African humanistic philosophy based on “I am because we are”UBUNTU
DDown 10: Word for flashes or flutters of fading flames, feathers, feelings, fritillaries, flying woodpeckers or old films
DDown 19: A cream-whipping, egg-beating, mousse-frothing utensil modelled on a besom of twigs or brush of hay
DDown 21: A raised leather seam on a shoe, thus a raised lash/weal on the skin
DDown 23: Greek word for “bird” that refers to a region’s collective avifauna
DDown 24: A coin-like disc, counter, coupon, gift/book voucher, keepsake, playing piece or other symbolic thing
DDown 25: Hero’s fickle fiancé who adds to the “much ado” in Shakespeare’s witty play set in MessinaCLAUDIO
DDown 26: Word meaning make known, share the news or spread the word, as in an article, book, newspaper etc
DDown 27: Frogman, loon or other plunger
DDown 29: A somewhat unfortunate chanticleer, aka cockerel, that has been castrated and also fattened for eating; a supposedly humorous name for a haddock, herring, sole or other fish; or, from Shakespeare, a love letter
DDown 31: Word, from “taste”, for keen relish, liking, vigour or zest; or, the style in which a work of art is executed
DDown 32: Spicy Malaysian noodle soup whose name means “10,000”, on account of its many ingredients
DDown 35: Word for a leaf in a book, thus a figurative turn in a story; or, a varlet
DDown 36: From Turkish for “camp”, word for a tribe of nomadic Mongolian warriors first, later a vast crowd of fans, insects, shoppers, tourists or anything else
DDown 38: A scattergood, spendthrift, wanderer returned, waster or other characteristically lavish squanderer
DDown 39: Word for a cow, deer, human or other animal given to literally or figuratively chewing the cud
DDown 42: Any one of a flourish of blasting, fanfaring, heralding or tooting cornet-like clarions whose highest register in baroque music is the clarino
DDown 44: Word, from “fun, jest, play sport”, for a real or figurative roll of the dice
DDown 45: Chewy buttery sweet treat that is small, cheap and recalled in a phrase emphasising a person’s complete lack of ability to do the simplest of tasks, even for a very small reward
DDown 47: Etymologically and literally “nutty” sweetmeat that is typically pink, pistachio-green or white and often incorrectly pronounced “nugget”
DDown 48: Tree whose fleetingly beautiful sakura (blossom) is celebrated in the Japanese flower-viewing tradition hanami, before transforming into sour, tart or sweet cerise drupes or “bobs” resembling miniature hearts
DDown 49: Word that, in a literal or figurative sense, means candied, cloying, excessively sweet, honeyed, saccharine, sickly or syrupy
DDown 50: Word, from “lump of bread given to a beggar”, that over time changed its meaning from said charitable act to a corrupt act informally called a back-hander, boodle, bung or buy-off
DDown 53: Unit of time whose precision relies on the rhythm of caesium atoms, during which Earth turns 15° and 1/24th of a solar day passes