Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 23rd January 2023

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 23rd January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Writer and preacher whose allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress forms the basis of an opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams
AAcross 9:	A road paved with cobblestones or setts; or, a path or track raised above a marsh, sand, water etc
AAcross 10:	A fish named after an infantry weapon; or, a diving position
AAcross 11:	An animal, person or thing that directs or steers, such as a handbook, manual, mountaineering leader , pathfinder or seeing-eye dog
AAcross 12:	Dialect, especially in Yorkshire, for a broad or open valley
AAcross 13:	Informal word for the branch of maths dealing with the properties of three-sided polygons
AAcross 15:	One’s beloved; a word denoting a secret agreement; a style of low-cut neckline; or, a variety of cabbage, also called hispi
AAcross 17:	Noted for beer and chocolates, birth country of Eddy Merckx
AAcross 19:	Condiment used for pickling
AAcross 22:	A hornbook; an old paddle for washing clothes etc; or, a racquet for striking a shuttlecock in an ancient game of the same name
AAcross 24:	Computer glitches; enthusiasts; insects; or, miniature microphones for secret eavesdropping
AAcross 26:	A flower-, fruit- or leaf-bearing axis of a plant; or, a word’s root
AAcross 27:	Pome/fruit associated with the legendary Arthurian island Avalon
AAcross 29:	A counterfeit or pretence; or, a word for a pillowcase in the US
AAcross 30:	Deer-like African ruminant, once a name of a fierce mythical beast
AAcross 31:	A planisher of car panels; a whisk; or, a member of a shoot who rouses game birds from their cover
DDown 1:	From the Latin meaning “younger”, the less senior of two people; a primary school pupil or under-boy; or, a word used to distinguish a son from his father
DDown 2:	Dialect for a cowshed/shippen
DDown 3:	A wooden peg; a protuberance on a tree trunk/branch; or, a former Scottish word for a woodpecker
DDown 4:	Amanuenses, calligraphers, copyists, journalists or writers
DDown 5:	A thin printed line; a dash; a measuring-stick; a monarch’s period of sovereignty; or, a regulation
DDown 6:	A bodkin-like implement with an eye; or, a magnetised part of a compass that always points north
DDown 7:	An arcade or courtyard of shops and boutiques under one roof
DDown 14:	A joke or anecdote forming part of a comedian’s act; a bit for a strong horse; a speech-muffling device; or, a closure imposed on a debate
DDown 15:	Impudence; or, from the Latin for “salt”, a condiment such as gravy
DDown 16:	Almond- or vanilla-flavoured curved wafer biscuit for ice cream, panna cotta or other pudding	TUILE
DDown 18:	Synthetic Lycra-like fibre
DDown 20:	Flow of the tide out to sea; or, by extension, a gradual decline
DDown 21:	From the French for “little pair”, two successive lines of verse
DDown 23:	Mood; or, hardness of metal
DDown 25:	A utensil for shredding/mincing food such as carrot, cheese, citrus zest, garlic, nutmeg or root ginger
DDown 27:	Former county of south-west England
DDown 28:	Largest island of the Tuscan archipelago, where Napoleon was forced to exile in 1814	ELBA
DDown 29:	A wooden spline of a bed frame, louvre or Venetian blind, e.g.