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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 3rd May 2025
There are 32 across clues and 30 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 3rd May 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Name, evocative of pine weasels, of a paysagist and former Hyacinth sailor whose sketches and watercolours from his later Beagle voyage illustrate the landscapes and milieux that helped shape his shipmate Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking scientific theor
AAcross 10: Name, ultimately derived from the Chinese character 茶 representing “plant, people, tree, wood”, of the camellia-derived hot beverage or brew “cha”, enjoyed by billions of people worldwide
AAcross 11: Gaelic name of the “bright fire” or “lucky fire” dew-collecting, floral crown-adorning, pole-dancing May Day festival traditionally marking the transition from spring to summerBELTANE
AAcross 13: Vibrant Hindu festival of colours celebrated during the spring to commemorate Krishna’s dalliance with the cowgirls or “gopis”HOLI
AAcross 14: French word for “handyman”, thus describing one who tinkers in DIY-style art or architecture, using found objects or “objets trouvés” and generally making do with what’s at handBRICOLEUR
AAcross 15: Greek-derived word that, in essence, represents an idealised “little picture” of rural life, whether in art, music, poetry or reality
AAcross 16: Word, with its roots preserved in “brine”, for a soused or steeped foodstuff such as Branston, chutney, fermented cabbage, kimchi, sauerkraut or a spiced gherkin; or, a messy muddle or sour state of affairs
AAcross 17: Word, imitative of a gust, for a blow of botherance; or, a draughts penalty
AAcross 19: Word for a “fancy gardener” or plant sculptor who clips living bay, boxwood, holly, privet or yew trees into ornamental shapes as enduring works of art in the landscape
AAcross 21: Genus name, roughly akin to “wild one” or “of the open fields”, of a metallic green damselfly, archaically referred to as a demoiselleAGRION
AAcross 23: A ballcock, bob, buoy, cork, quill, raft, scoop of ice cream, swim bladder or other thing supported by water or cola by means of buoyant force
AAcross 24: Word whose etymology suggests it was a “noon-drink”, but in today’s sense it is more likely to be a light repast, lunch, piece of victuals eaten between meals or a snack
AAcross 26: Fairy pool-rich “cloud island” or “misty isle” which is the largest of Scotland’s Inner HebridesSKYE
AAcross 28: A crocheted, laced or tatted ornamental mat or frilly cake-plate coaster with a haberdasher’s name etymologically woven into its fabric
AAcross 29: An arachnid’s trap to whose intricate network of threads the vast mind- and time-entrapping digital landscape of the internet is likened
AAcross 30: Feed or forage for a herd; a seed from which a clue is grown in a crossword; food to fuel imagination or figuratively chew on; or, soldiers, proverbially consumed by a cannon
AAcross 31: Word for “heavy, thick”, as in a bold knit, bracelet, chocolate bar or lumpy soup one might almost chew
AAcross 33: Whether a blue nun, coaly capped Kohlmeise, crested king, doorstep milk thief, great mésange charbonnière, long-tailed mumruffin or sooty bibbed willow-nester, it is a chickadee
AAcross 35: Moria of the mind, thus madness of mock ruin or sham monument
AAcross 36: Word whose meaning was etymologically recycled from “old rope” into “clutter, rubbish, scrap”
AAcross 37: French “sickness of the sea”, often with waves of nausea and greenness about one’s gillsMAL DE MER
AAcross 39: Corn silk, cotton candy, dental string, embroidery thread, fluff or other apparently wool- or down-like stuff
AAcross 40: A fencer’s quick follow-up or “send back”; or, a general return to form
AAcross 42: Negatively charged agents of anionic attraction – the “plums” in J J Thomson’s atomic “pudding”
AAcross 45: A simple word, yet one describing a fascinating phenomenon associated with fluid dynamics, gravity, icicles, IV therapy, lachrymal tears, percolating coffee, Pollock’s method of painting, rain and stalactites
AAcross 47: Anatomical Latin for a human’s “great toe”, thus homologous with a bird or beast’s first digit
AAcross 49: Word, related to “foal”, for a colt’s young mare counterpart; thus, rather archaically, a lively or spirited girl
AAcross 50: Small fastener whose marrying male and female parts pop or snap together to unite a Babygro, bag, bedcover or bodysuit’s gussetPRESS STUD
AAcross 52: A vaticinal word for a divine eye, oracle, prophet, visionary or other looker or gazer into tomorrow and beyond; or, an eyewitness
AAcross 53: A close cuddle or grasp, thus one’s belle or beau with whom to clasp
AAcross 54: Dialect word, homophonous with a fish, for blush, complexion, flush, a marigold, redness or rouge
AAcross 55: Folk violins to whose fast-bowing actions fidgety tinkerings or idlings with the hands are likened
DDown 1: Whether for coring an apple, hulling a strawberry, peeling a pear, segmenting a citrus or slicing a peach, it is a silver-bladed parer to keep out of reachFRUIT-KNIFE
DDown 2: Pocket-sized rock, polished by the tide, evocative of a duck or a drake when skimmed on the water’s glide
DDown 3: P G Wodehouse’s unflappably stylish monocled dandy who navigates life’s absurdities with sangfroid, wit, entertaining dialogue and this silent-lettered namePSMITH
DDown 4: Palindromic name of a German engineer who came up roses when he successfully developed the first practical four-stroke petrol engine
DDown 5: An early riser, literally breadwinning or earning a crust by harnessing flour power to make loaves
DDown 6: Italian slang for a “poliziotto”, aka cop, but also a henchman or ruffian; or, lager-soaked cow’s milk cheese
DDown 7: An unusual word for the act of dashing or striking against, whose near-homophonic etymological or semantic relative means apparition, deception, maya or mirage
DDown 8: A magnificent epiphytic wild flower, often two feet high or more, named for the shape of its blooms, fancied to resemble bonneted Victorian women in spotted crinolined gownsLADY ORCHID
DDown 9: A harbour, marina or other secure sheltering safe haven where one’s real or figurative anchor is dropped
DDown 12: Philologist who was an inspiration for Pygmalion’s professor and identified several English dialects, including Cumbrian, Pitmatic and that of the Smoggies; or, an author who explored yuppie nihilism in American PsychoELLIS
DDown 18: A bloom-related word indicating a lilied decorative treatment using a fleur-de-lis motif on a heraldic charge
DDown 20: From medieval holding pond in a monastic spot to a boiling bouillabaisse or simmering cioppino pot, either way it is a fishy watery lot
DDown 22: Famously agreeable bell-hatted fellow, fond of zipping around Toyland in a little red-and-yellow roadster and visiting a big-eared gnome in a fly agaric toadstool tenement
DDown 23: To squander or waste, like scattering little bits or shreds of deep-fried delicacies of battered food
DDown 24: Word for little bits, bites, chumbles or murine gnaws of small tasty savouries or salted snacks, say
DDown 25: Any one of the “Blue Marble’s” five salty pelagic expanses whose name echoes a Titan of primeval waters
DDown 27: Māori “light-coloured one”, aka pale ghost or ethereal spirit
DDown 30: From “hearth, fireplace”, a warm welcoming entrance hall, whether in a cinema, hotel, school or theatre
DDown 32: Zoological Latin term, rather like a word for “absurd”, describing a cuckoo baby, dove peep, eaglet, hawk eyas, juvenile parrot, owlet, pigeon squeaker, puffling, young woodpecker or other chick that remains as a “nest-dweller” for some time after
DDown 34: Word with a bunch of meanings including a beard, a feathery crest, a grassy clump, a loop in a rug, a tassel or a wisp of a squirrel’s fluffy tail/ear
DDown 35: A word for a low price or what’s under one’s feet, where one walks or where politicians speak
DDown 36: Term for a cluttered bazaar, charity event, flea market or rummage fair, typically with an eclectic confusion of bric-à-brac and miscellany, generally donated, home-made, second-hand or sometimes rareJUMBLE SALE
DDown 38: Robin Hood’s jolly greenwood crew, thus one’s jesting, spirited or zany band of loyal followersMERRY MEN
DDown 41: Small china plates for cups with with a relishing and seasoned past
DDown 43: Word, with its origins in “air, sky, upwardness”, for attics or garrets, whether for storage or pigeons
DDown 44: A crab’s claw; or, an ankle-biter
DDown 46: A deterrent or repellent in the form of a brush-aside reply, cold-shouldering excuse or mood-killing damperPUT-OFF
DDown 47: Surfers’ slang for beach bluffers, surf fantasists or wave wannabes
DDown 48: River hopper, shuttle boat or water bus for plying passengers to and fro
DDown 51: Word with meanings ranging from baking agent, carbonated water and fizzy pop, to pushover, soap powder and faro card at the top