Telegraph Herculis Answers

Monday, 20th March 2023

There are 17 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 20th March 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 6:	Victorian poet, orchardist and scholar who penned 14 novels including his tale of 17th-century Exmoor titled Lorna Doone	BLACKMORE
AAcross 7:	A dowel or peg; the tenon of a dovetail joint; a small ornamental brooch; or, a sharp tack used in dressmaking or tailoring
AAcross 9:	A vaulting-horse; a vertical leap performed by an equid; or, a male fallow deer, goat, hare or rabbit
AAcross 10:	The science of light and vision; eyes; or, devices attached to the necks of inverted bottles for dispensing measures of spirits
AAcross 11:	A sheltered side, as opposed to the windward or weather side
AAcross 12:	Word used to mean universal, worldwide or inconceivably vast
AAcross 14:	Canine such as a collie trained to herd ewes, lambs or rams; or, an old slang word for a chaperone
AAcross 14:	Canine such as a collie trained to herd ewes, lambs or rams; or, an old slang word for a chaperone
AAcross 16:	A three-headed muscle, such as that in the upper arm that extends or straightens the elbow joint
AAcross 17:	Word for unity or for the state of being in harmony with something
AAcross 21:	Heraldic stars with wavy points
AAcross 24:	A bare chance; a feeble newspaper/rag; a narrow escape; the slimmest of margins; a sound of a door or a mouse; or, a tiny amount
AAcross 25:	A neck accessory such as that in the wide garish “kipper” style
AAcross 26:	To fluster, pester or worry; a petty perplexity; or, an interjection of mild annoyance or irritation
AAcross 28:	A period of prosperity; or, the loud resonant sound of an explosion, thunder or of the bittern
AAcross 29:	Rudyard Kipling’s final novel	KIM
AAcross 30:	Arctic raptors named for their niveous white plumage	SNOWY OWLS
DDown 1:	A bundle or load carried on the back of a donkey, for example; a hot or cold compress for an injury; or, a quantity of food in a wrapper
DDown 2:	The top of the cranium; another name for the mint family’s helmet flower; or, a protective hat worn by a jockey or other equestrian
DDown 3:	A female deity, such as Aphrodite or Venus; any greatly admired or adored woman; or, with “green”, an old British Army fire engine
DDown 4:	Velvet “burnout” fabric with a pattern etched with acid
DDown 5:	A petty quarrel or tiff; the spawn of oysters or of other shellfish; or, a type of short cloth gaiter
DDown 6:	From the French meaning “to pout” or “sulking-place”, a woman’s private room or bedchamber
DDown 8:	Any of a number of tortilla chips for topping with cheese, chillies etc
DDown 13:	Word denoting a very short skirt or something else on a small scale
DDown 15:	Japanese condiment or dipping sauce of kombu, mirin, rice vinegar, soy and yuzu or other citrus juice
DDown 18:	Small bouquets or posies of sweetly scented flowers
DDown 19:	Ghosts; spies; or, umbrae
DDown 20:	Actor who played Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in six films made throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Death on the Nile
DDown 22:	A company’s capital, divisible into shares; a supply of something for future use; or, a farm’s animals
DDown 23:	A player of a cithara- or phorminx-like musical instrument
DDown 27:	A protuberance on a camel’s back; or, a mound of earth
DDown 28:	Vessel for cereal, punch, soup etc; or, a wood rolled on a green

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