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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 26th April 2025
There are 32 across clues and 30 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 26th April 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: A canvas of a farmhouse in Sussex, where art bloomed, a walled garden originally burgeoned and the love and creativity of Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and their fellow bohemian Bloomsburyites once flourished
AAcross 12: Whether on a sideboard or a saucer or containing an acorn, boiled egg, caramel, claret, copra, culinary ingredient, golf ball, tea or victor’s champagne, it is a small or miniature mug- or “tub”-like vessel
AAcross 13: Latin “wink” at a circular window, dome’s opening, oeil-de-boeuf, volute’s boss or other architectural “eye”
AAcross 14: Lovers’ bond; a lump of toads; a nest of snakes; a tangle of threads; a twist of fate; a woven tapestry of herbs; or, a sandpiper that derives its name from a king whose royal wave failed to stop the rising tide
AAcross 15: A tally, teller, timer or totaliser; a tiddlywink or points-tracker; a token representing a coin; a kitchen top; a turnstile or till’s table over which takeaways, teas or tickets are traded and legal tender transacted; a chess tactic; a thwart; or, to t
AAcross 16: An old-fashioned British adieu, chin-chin, goodbye or farewell; a drinking toast; a crunchy little “O” of breakfast cereal; or, an Australasian cocktail sausage or mini saveloy
AAcross 17: Adjective that relates to the Moon and its revolutions; or, alluding to said natural satellite’s apparent argentine shine, the metal silver
AAcross 18: Knuckle-bones-based game whose name is used as a childish or informal way to assert a prior claim
AAcross 20: Spanish in name but French by nature – a classic Escoffierian “sauce mère” of brown roux, tomatoes and veal stock, often used as a base for demi-glace
AAcross 22: Statisticians’ artworks in the form of charts, curves, diagrams, pies and plots that are more than mere lines and squiggles, but symbolic keys revealing data’s hidden figures and meanings
AAcross 24: A traditional Japanese chest, originally where Edo kimono restTANSU
AAcross 25: Saint of Lindisfarne whose life, legacy and protection of nature, particularly of his namesake Cuddy’s duck, are regarded as an early blueprint for wildlife conservationCUTHBERT
AAcross 27: Sword lily’s nickname that hints at a beaming, bright, cheerful, happy, joyous or pleased feeling or state
AAcross 29: A pig or porker’s low guttural groan, oink, snort or squeal, thus found within a word meaning grumblingly fed up or snortingly displeased
AAcross 30: Word describing Jack Sprat’s wife and corruptedly spelt with a “ph” when meaning bad, cool, def, mega or positively ripping
AAcross 31: Word whose etymological journey travels from a rush-basket to a dish of cream cheese or sweetened curds to a trip or excursion for a feast or picnic
AAcross 32: Name, from vine-gathering “hooks”, for the “winberiges” or “wineberries” whose vintage refers to the year said vine fruits were harvested
AAcross 34: Not a solo, but not a crowd, just a couple or two, possibly espoused
AAcross 36: Word echoing the sound of a casual or unskilled sweep of guitar strings
AAcross 37: As snug as a bug in a rug or as a teapot in a woolly hat-like cover
AAcross 38: Word that started as a term for a mild autumn “goose summer” and later weaved its way into autumn’s fine floating spider silk; delicate cobwebs; or, airy diaphanous and floaty fabric
AAcross 40: From “plant cutting, shoot, twig”, word for an exact genetic replica of a cell, DNA sequence or organism; thus, a carbon copy, doppelgänger, mini-me, spitting image, twin or Xerox
AAcross 41: Autodidactic painter whose understanding of horses was not merely skin-deep, but literally to the bone, for his masterpiece titled The Anatomy of the Horse showcases his own dissections
AAcross 43: Atmospheric ice-crystal halo and glorious light show whose etymology perfectly reflects the phenomenon’s appearance: a bright spot appearing beside the Sun, hence “mock sun”
AAcross 46: A “bare, exposed, naked” man in backgammon; a weak spot; or, an ink splodge or figurative stain
AAcross 48: Name, from the Japanese for “pickled plum”, for South Africa’s unique sticky sweet treat or preserve of sun-dried apricots, peaches or pears
AAcross 50: Paprika-rich beef stew of a Magyar herdsman; or, a redeal in bridge
AAcross 51: Word for silken strips of achievement or ornamentation, but also frayed ragged tattered shreds
AAcross 53: A dragon, fox or wolf’s den or “lying place”; or, the ground for a grave
AAcross 54: A black sheep’s social standing; or, the result of a thumbs down
AAcross 55: Metal “Sn”, used for biscuit boxes, food cans, tea caddies, toy soldiers or conspiracy theorists’ hats
AAcross 56: Artist who fled Nazi Germany to the Lake District where he sought both refuge and refuse by means of peace and by the found objects or rubbish for his “Merz” collagesSCHWITTERS
DDown 1: A maker or merchant of wax lights, traditionally in the pre-electric world
DDown 2: A block, index rerum, jotter, journal, pocketbook or other simple yet note-worthy tool on whose bond or paper one’s thoughts and ideas are captured and bound in one’s calligraphical hand, pen, scrawl or scribbleWRITING PAD
DDown 3: Initially a general shopkeeper, later a specialist dealer in luxury textiles
DDown 4: An old-fashioned or Scots “hour, moment, season, time”, thus an ache, assault, astonishment, pang, stroke, time of trouble or violent shock
DDown 5: One of a cloud or swarm of dipterans which has carried the inherent meaning of a small and often biting insect through its linguistic history
DDown 6: A shepherd’s historical tally of 20 sheep; the notch duly made; points in a game; or, a grievance or grudge
DDown 7: Once traded as culinary treasures worth their weight in gold, now staple kitchen ingredients, but still aromatic, balmy and bold
DDown 8: Whether from weather charts and market trends or astrological readings, scrying and tasseography, it is a word for an anticipated or calculated outlook
DDown 9: A simple yet satisfyingly sweet or comforting fruited roll or teacake enjoyed as a traditional treat by humans and Mrs Rabbit alikeCURRANT BUN
DDown 10: Term for nuciferous oleaginous essence or extract of almonds, argan seeds, Brazils, noisettes or other kernels for cookery, cosmetics or conditioning one’s coifNUT OIL
DDown 19: From “gathering of people”, a Gugelhupf-like cake baked in a ring-shaped fluted pan of the same name
DDown 21: Rooted in “tuft of grass”, a green sometimes-sodden carpet or gallops grazed or raced upon by horses
DDown 23: Audible breaths of relief
DDown 24: A mighty boom from a powerful electric charge, like the sound of Thor’s legendary hammer strike
DDown 25: Word for a rural group of peasants first, later an exclusive clique of elites
DDown 26: Wetland grasses forming beds inhabited by aptly named “sedges” of cranes, bitterns, egrets or herons
DDown 28: “Abundant, copious, broad” Italian tempo marking used to indicate a very slow dignified rhythm, often to convey a sense of solemnity or grandeur
DDown 31: Nom de plume under which the Baroness of Holland Park enigmatically published Cover Her Face, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Private Patient and all other Dalgliesh mysteries
DDown 33: Historical inns with stables for couriers’ cobs, letter-handlers’ horses or mail-carriers’ mounts; or, GPOs
DDown 35: Ancient Spanish mariners’ “asesina ballenas” or “whale killer” whose genus, from the name of a Roman god of the underworld, likely refers to said grampus’s predatory prowess
DDown 36: A party of rainbowfish gathering on a bar; or, an ichthyic school generally
DDown 37: A morsel-, scrap-, soupçon- and titbit-catching item of napery saving messy eaters’ carpets and floors since Queen Victoria’s reign
DDown 39: Italian dish of spinach and ricotta gnocchi-like dumplings – “badly made” or “poorly formed”, according to their name, but delicious nonethelessMALFATTI
DDown 42: Collection of animals, real or imaginary, but all illuminated within the pages of a medieval book
DDown 44: Patient piscator of the riverbank; or, a schemer who lures and hooks
DDown 45: Serpentine- or verd-antique-like greenstone whose name, from “snake”, refers to its mottled similarity to said fork-tongued naga’s skin
DDown 47: Word, originating from battlefield spoils, for a victory goblet, plate or shield as a tangible reminder of triumph
DDown 48: Fabric poetically described as “woven air” or “evening dew”, thus highlighting its delicate diaphanous ethereal fine gauzy nature
DDown 49: A wicked malicious act or mad frolic of the past, but a playful trick, practical joke or other piece of harmless mischief of today
DDown 52: A sculpted portrait, often set on a pedestal in a grand room; the economic antithesis of a boom; a blackjack loser’s fate; or, a police raid involving a smash of a door or gate