Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 19th June 2023

There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 19th June 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 6:	Author of the poetry collection The Bloom of Candles and the autobiographical trilogy beginning with Cider with Rosie
AAcross 7:	Vegetable with concentric layers, often pickled, studded with cloves or used to make bhajis or a traditional French soup
AAcross 8:	Translated to mean “lion”, the national currency of Bulgaria
AAcross 10:	Informal term for a state of trouble or a dangerous predicament	HOT WATER
AAcross 11:	Perennials in the pea family with spires of flowers in most colours including blue, pink and purple
AAcross 12:	A maker of the weapons from which archers shoot arrows
AAcross 13:	Author of novels including Coningsby, Henrietta Temple, Sybil and Vivian Grey who twice served as prime minister of the UK
AAcross 15:	Collective stumps of corn left in a field where a crop has been cut and harvested; or, an unshaven growth of beard, aka a five-o’clock shadow
AAcross 18:	A succession of hereditary monarchs; or, a sequence of prominent figures from one family
AAcross 21:	An American-style richly spiced deep-dish apple pudding with a baked crust, similar to a cobbler
AAcross 23:	Sign of the zodiac represented by twins Castor and Pollux
AAcross 25:	The indicator in a spirit level
AAcross 27:	Either of a pair of hinged flaps on a table that can be raised to extend said furniture piece’s surface and lowered when not in use	DROP LEAF
AAcross 28:	The “Altar” constellation
AAcross 29:	Units of life with cytoplasm containing mitochondria
AAcross 30:	The extremity of the length of something, such as a hair or a road
DDown 1:	Any regular route used by ships; a rough or heavy ocean; or, a vessel’s progress through the waves
DDown 2:	Mixture of cement, sand and aqua with which bricks are bonded; or, a vessel in which substances are pulverised with a pestle
DDown 3:	Literary word for skilful hunters
DDown 4:	Largest of Wales’s islands, reached by the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford
DDown 5:	An escape; a fall from grace; a quick-release leash for a dog; or, an unexpected loss of footing caused by a loss of traction
DDown 6:	A strategic point or place, such as a crow’s-nest or watchtower, from which to make observations
DDown 6:	A strategic point or place, such as a crow’s-nest or watchtower, from which to make observations
DDown 9:	A polymer, such as PVC, used to make gramophone records; or, said music discs collectively
DDown 14:	Pop group who performed the title song of the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights	A-HA
DDown 16:	An unopened flower
DDown 17:	Novelist, David Herbert, whose birthplace home in Eastwood has been transformed into a museum dedicated to his life
DDown 19:	Beer mug or stein of pewter, silver or wood; or, its contents
DDown 20:	Irish physicist who laid the foundation for our understanding of climate change and of the greenhouse effect
DDown 22:	Genus of plants that includes the creeping carpet-forming wild flower known as a bugle
DDown 23:	Gallinaceous game bird whose name is a synonym of “grumble”
DDown 24:	French painter of peasants and rural scenes such as The Gleaners
DDown 26:	A cry or heehaw of a donkey