Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 1st April 2023

There are 34 across clues and 31 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 1st April 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Psychologist whose study of the learning ability of hungry cats to escape from his “puzzle box” invention contributed towards our understanding of how habits are formed and his “law of effect”
AAcross 10:	A bundle of hay or straw; a roll of banknotes; a large sum of said money; a mass of cotton wool, tow etc for packing or stuffing; or, a slang word for a bun, cake or sandwich
AAcross 11:	One of a “water dance” of dabchicks or great crested birds who build floating nests and whose courtship displays were studied by Aldous Huxley’s brother Julian
AAcross 13:	From the Latin for “charming, fine, handsome”, a dandy, fop or man of fashion, such as the Regency socialite George Bryan Brummell who famously insulted his friend, the future George IV
AAcross 14:	From “caput”, meaning “head”, a titled division of a book or other written work; a distinctive period in history or in a person’s life; or, a series of events forming an episode
AAcross 15:	One of a “creep” of chelonian land reptiles with a beak, carapace and elephant-like legs, such as Charles Darwin’s galapago, “Harriet”
AAcross 16:	From the Latin for “field”, the grounds and buildings of a college or university; the academic world; or, a genre of novel depicting this
AAcross 17:	Greyish brown; a horse with a coat of this colour, combined with a black mane and tail; an importunate debt collector; a hill-fort; or, a fishing fly resembling a subimago mayfly
AAcross 18:	A cylinder, bobbin or reel upon which something such as film, fishing-line, tape or yarn is wound
AAcross 19:	French word for a bistro, café or restaurant’s available dishes; or, a carte du jour detailing said fare
AAcross 20:	A biscuit serving as a vehicle for conveying cheese from plate to palate; a prawn-flavoured crisp-like snack; a banger; a beauty; a hacker; or, a snapper once called a bonbon
AAcross 23:	Physiological faculties of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch
AAcross 25:	A regular quadrilateral; a quartile aspect; the figurative “shape” of a full, balanced meal; a mortarboard; a carpenter’s measure; or, one of a chessboard’s black/white spaces
AAcross 28:	From the Old English for “bog, swamp”, a primitive green flowerless bryophyte, such as the baby tooth, haircap, knight’s plume, pincushion or shiny seductive species
AAcross 29:	A vertical brick/stone structure an athlete metaphorically hits during the state of fatigue known as the bonk
AAcross 30:	From the French for “fall”, an instance or happening that “befalls”; a chest, trunk or valise; the husk of a seed or cover of a wristwatch; a legal proceeding; or, an eccentric
AAcross 32:	A type of toboggan; a similar vehicle for conveying goods up and down the steep cobbled street in the fishing village of Clovelly; or, an insult aimed at a fellow player in cricket
AAcross 34:	One of the four natural divisions of a year; or, a time thereof when a particular fruit, vegetable, nut etc is most fresh, plentiful or ripe
AAcross 36:	M?ori word for an abalone or its shell used for jewellery or trinkets
AAcross 37:	A blaze or conflagration as a result of combustion; a mass of flaming coal, kindling or wood in a hearth; ardour or passion; or, a burning feeling produced by drinking strong liquor
AAcross 38:	A floating growler detached from a glacier/iceberg; a young buffalo, cow, elephant, giraffe, rhino, whale or other vituline specimen; or, old slang for a dolt or hobbledehoy
AAcross 40:	A large zill-like instrument forming part of an orchestra’s “kitchen”
AAcross 42:	From the Old French for “shield-bearer”, a young man of noble birth who attended a knight originally, later a landed gentleman of old family
AAcross 43:	An Italian version of a chiffon or sponge, served as a cake in its own right or as the basis of a lady’s finger, madeleine or mokatine
AAcross 45:	A throw of a die, fishing-line or sounding lead; a squint of the eye; the directing of a pack of hounds; or, the collective actors in a play
AAcross 47:	One of a flight of steps; or, in the Scots language, the entire series of said treads, from landing to floor
AAcross 49:	Word for a hatchet since Anglo-Saxon times; or, from the 1950s, a slang term for an electric guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz
AAcross 50:	A pouch or wallet originally, later the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s annual statement, hence the showing of a battered red box as a gesture to the origin of the word in question
AAcross 52:	From the Latin for “life”, the various micronutrients assigned letters in order of their discovery, from “A” retinol to “K” phylloquinone
AAcross 54:	Italian musical term for dash, brilliance or virtuosity in performance; or, any bold or daring display
AAcross 55:	A grotto or hollow; or, pronounced “kah-vay”, a schoolchild’s holla meaning “beware!”/“look out” to warn chums of an approaching teacher
AAcross 56:	The compass or sweep of a golf club, pendulum, trapeze or of one of the balls of a Newton’s cradle
AAcross 57:	A word, based on the Greek for “chaos”, for a state of matter, such as carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen, ozone or xenon
AAcross 58:	Red-cyan stereoscopic pictures that appear to be 3-D when viewed through red-blue glasses
DDown 1:	A conjurer or juggler’s dog-Latin incantation when performing a trick; or, chicanery, mumbo-jumbo or mystifying jargon generally	HOCUS-POCUS
DDown 2:	From the Middle Dutch for “bites”, a word for light incidental meals
DDown 3:	Sorcerers such as Gandalf, Merlin, Radagast and Hogwarts alumni; dazzlingly skilled individuals; or, help features of software packages
DDown 4:	Courts’ declarations of punishment; aphorisms; or, strings of words
DDown 5:	Steels for fencing or brandished in battle dances or pyrrhics; snouts of billfish or marlin; or, a tarot suit
DDown 6:	Particular formats/versions of books or newspapers published in set print runs of the same name
DDown 7:	Instances of tumbling decorated “oeufs” down grassy hills in an old Easter game; or, Chinese-American appetisers of julienned vegetables wrapped in pancakes	EGG ROLLS
DDown 8:	Meaning “play well”, a construction toy consisting of a set of interlocking coloured bricks and minifigures
DDown 9:	Used to denote a constellation’s eighth member, a polar coordinate or an angle, the eighth Greek letter
DDown 12:	Name, from the Greek for “dawn” in reference to a rose colour it imparts to silk, of a red fluorescent dye
DDown 19:	A pale purple colour that takes its name from the mallow flower
DDown 21:	Treetop breeding place of corvids; or, by extension, an overcrowded cluster of slum tenements
DDown 22:	Forename of the architect Lutyens, the astronomer Hubble or the painter and sculptor Landseer
DDown 24:	Mineral springs; or, health resorts or other places with such thermae
DDown 26:	Meaning “little king”, the genus of the goldcrest and the kinglet
DDown 27:	The sound of a burst of thunder, a rock pigeon’s wings during its take-off or of two hands colliding
DDown 31:	Forename of illustrator “Marco” Marx who designed moquette seating fabric for London Underground trains in the 1930s and stamps marking the start of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign
DDown 32:	A Highlander’s dagger; or, meaning “hut” or “tent”, a structure at the back of an ancient Greek stage, originally a dressing room
DDown 33:	From the Sanskrit for “heavy”, a Hindu teacher who, by virtue of their knowledge, is a heavyweight
DDown 35:	French peasant’s wooden clog
DDown 38:	A picturesque mass of mare’stails or other “nubes”; or, a painting of said scene, such as any one of those executed by John Constable
DDown 39:	A secession/escape; a stampede; an attacking sprint to the goal in sport; or, a group of cyclists ahead of, or accelerating away from, a peloton
DDown 39:	A secession/escape; a stampede; an attacking sprint to the goal in sport; or, a group of cyclists ahead of, or accelerating away from, a peloton
DDown 41:	Catalogues; selvages; or, events guides in newspapers, detailing times and venues of concerts, films etc
DDown 42:	General term for any one of the 12 astrological or zodiacal houses	STAR SIGN
DDown 44:	From the Latin for “a lifetime, generation”, a word meaning relating to or observed once in that period; or, non-religious
DDown 46:	Word for an assumed identity; or, a name used to find a computer file, command, address etc
DDown 48:	From the Latin for “oak, strength”, a word for something healthy, strong, sturdy or vigorous, or for wine or food with a rich full-bodied flavour
DDown 50:	With a now extinct “pocket” type prized by Henry VII and Elizabeth I, a hound originally bred to hunt hare
DDown 51:	An overhanging edge of a roof
DDown 53:	Word, apparently introduced by scientist Francis Bacon, for any sour-tasting substance, or for one with a more specific pH of less than 7