Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 6th May 2023

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Known to the Saxons as “Tri-Milchi”, in recognition of cows being milked thrice daily due to an abundance of lush verdant pasture, the name of the spring month containing Beltane
AAcross 10:	Featuring in the rocaille rockwork of grottoes and later in aspects of rococo, the “coquilles” or “conchiglie” of angel wings, cockles, jingles, periwinkles, volutes, wentletraps and other marine molluscs
AAcross 11:	Word, related to the name of a cereal crop and of a unit of land, for any wild fruit or nut originally, later a specific cupule-borne forest fruit, squirrel snack and chief form of pig mast from which an oak tree grows
AAcross 13:	From the Latin for “clear”, a word used to mean fair, pure or unclouded, as of the sky or the air; calm, peaceful and tranquil; or, as part of a royal title, honoured
AAcross 14:	Artist John Egerton Christmas who painted The Englishman’s Home for the Festival of Britain, designed stained glass and collaborated with John Betjeman, Geoffrey Grigson and Ben Nicholson, among others
AAcross 15:	From the Latin for “high”, elevation above a datum line/sea level; angular distance of a celestial body above Earth’s horizon; or, by extension, loftiness of rank or any great height
AAcross 16:	Gravitational force by which a body is attracted to Earth; a unit used to measure said heaviness; boldness of a typeface; a metal block used with a balance; or, density of cloth
AAcross 18:	An instrument with a sharp point likened to the hole-boring beak of a green woodpecker
AAcross 19:	Burrows, dens, fortresses, setts and other retreats of wild animals; enclosures for beasts; or, secret boltholes for hiding or seclusion
AAcross 20:	Word for funny stories, pranks or tricks originally, later dolls, jigsaw puzzles, teddy bears, tin soldiers, train sets and other playthings; or, dogs, replicas etc in miniature
AAcross 21:	From the Arabic for “reunion of broken parts” or “bone-setting”, a method of calculation using letters/ symbols to represent numbers
AAcross 24:	Old word for an actor; a horse for pulling a passenger/mail-coach; or, an old hand, veteran or other adept of much worldly experience
AAcross 25:	Word, from the Italian for “antique” meaning “grotesque” in reference to fantastic architectural carvings of faces à la mode at the time, for absurd acts or ludicrous capers
AAcross 28:	A musical wind instrument fashioned from brass or a conch; an antenna of a beetle; an antler of a deer; a tentacle of a snail; a tip of a crescent; or, a symbol of a cuckold
AAcross 29:	Earth goddess whose name, at the suggestion of William Golding, was applied by James Lovelock to a hypothesis of self-regulation
AAcross 30:	A jolt; a swelling; a sleeping policeman; a knock of a boat in a rowing race; or, a customary throw or lift in the air of a birthday boy or girl
AAcross 32:	Self-styled “Palladio of patisserie” who advanced haute cuisine, illustrated his own cookery-books and created pièces montées
AAcross 34:	A chalk-like stick of pigment; a work of art created with such a crayon; a soft or muted colour such as baby blue, duck egg, lavender, peach or powder pink; or, woad
AAcross 36:	Tragedian noted for his portrayal of Shakespearean villains and for his histrionic spat with the father of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, Junius Brutus Booth
AAcross 37:	Abbreviation of an order made against one who has engaged in an antisocial act such as misuse of fireworks, nuisance calls, rowdiness, street drinking or vandalism	ASBO
AAcross 38:	A wavering cry of an owl; a parp of a steam whistle or the instrument described in 28 Across; a jeer; a jot; or, a hilarious escapade or person
AAcross 40:	— VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour who reigned as king for six years until his death, aged 15
AAcross 42:	Word used to mean important, powerful, strapping, strong or valiant; or, informally, very/to a high degree
AAcross 43:	From the Greek for “contest” or “prize”, a sportsperson such as a competitor in track and field; or, any person of exceptional fitness
AAcross 45:	Short word for a two-wheeled vehicle with a human for an engine; or, Scots dialect for a nest or swarm of ants, hornets, wasps or wild bees
AAcross 47:	From an Old Norse name for the razorbill, a term for a dovekie, guillemot, puffin or other auk
AAcross 48:	Hardy cereal grass with grains used for crispbread, pumpernickel, whisky or animal fodder; or, a Romany word for gentleman
AAcross 49:	From the French for “sadness” or “poverty”, a bidding player’s attempt to lose every trick in solo whist
AAcross 51:	Substance from which something is made; cloth, fabric or textile; jokes, songs etc comprising a performer’s act; or, the facts, ideas, notes etc collected as the basis of a book
AAcross 53:	From the Latin for “12th part”, like the inch, a word for 1/12 of an imperial pound; or, any modicum
AAcross 54:	From an Arabic word once used as a collective term for all citruses, lime-like fruits with which James Lind helped to conquer scurvy
AAcross 56:	Peter Sallis’s character Norman in Last of the Summer Wine
AAcross 57:	Meaning “to slide”, the sweep of a finger along adjacent piano keys or harp strings; or, a similar effect produced on a trombone
AAcross 58:	Word invoking a united cheer; the scarlet fruit of a wild rose; or, a coxa
DDown 1:	Unit of data comprising twice as many binary digits as a nibble
DDown 2:	Word for a climb up but also a going back in ancestry or in time
DDown 3:	Fictional prince crowned King of Narnia with the help of Aslan and the Pevensie siblings in the chronicles penned by C S Lewis
DDown 4:	Word, from the Italian for “dish of onions”, for a small thin sausage
DDown 5:	From “flower-gathering”, a collection of blooms, either real or illustrated in a book; or, a literary anthology, garland or spicilege
DDown 6:	Apple, fig, pear or other fruit tree “shouldered” on a trellis where it is trained to grow flat against a wall
DDown 7:	Italian term for a free-form musical piece improvised according to the dictates of a composer’s imagination; or, a potpourri of popular melodies
DDown 8:	Word for an arrow originally, later a jagged flash of lightning with a simultaneous crash of thunder; a roll of cloth; a dash; or, a pin for a nut
DDown 9:	From a name of a memory goddess, one’s power of remembrance
DDown 12:	Blytonian companion of Big Ears; a tern whose genus Anous means “stupid” or “foolish”; the ancestor of cribbage; or, the jack in this game
DDown 17:	To garner leftover harvested grain; or, to gather facts, bit by bit
DDown 20:	Word for a guardian originally, later a private coach, instructor or mentor; or, a book of instructions
DDown 22:	One of a “leap” of big cats with coats marked with proverbial unchanging spots called rosettes
DDown 23:	Looked upon by the Witch Head Nebula, the bright blue supergiant in Orion the Hunter’s “foot”
DDown 26:	From the French for “stewed fruit”, humus or mulch used as fertiliser
DDown 27:	Stack of hay or straw with a thatch; or, a wrench to one’s back or neck
DDown 31:	A col; a sally of wit; a season ticket; a visa; or, an amorous advance
DDown 32:	A patch for mending; a nail for securing roofing felt; a target for long-distance shooting in archery; a biff or cuff with a hand; or, power or influence in business/politics
DDown 33:	A campion in bloom during the months when cuckoos call, hence the latter part of its Latin name floscuculi meaning “flower of the cuckoo”	RAGGED ROBIN
DDown 35:	A path, route or way taken; a footprint; a vestige; or, a scarcely detectable amount of rain
DDown 38:	Peaks ranging in size from Marilyn and mountain to mole mound
DDown 39:	Liquorice-flavoured spice derived from an étoile-shaped seed of a tree in the “seductive” genus Illicium	STAR ANISE
DDown 41:	Pictures produced/portrayed in pencils or pens rather than paints
DDown 42:	Scientific study of fungi
DDown 44:	Manorial land retained by a lord for his own use and not let to tenants
DDown 46:	Forename of either a master of the mint who discovered gravity, a vegetarian teetotaller who invented a system of shorthand or an actor who invented a sewing machine
DDown 49:	Word used to mean juicy, ripe or sweet, as of fruit; well matured, as of wine; soft, as of colour/sound; kind through old age; or, genially drunk
DDown 50:	A sportsperson’s momentumgathering approach sprint before bowling, jumping, vaulting etc	RUN-UP
DDown 52:	“Twinkling” organs referred to as the “windows to the soul”; or, holes in needles or Swiss cheese
DDown 55:	New Zealand author of numerous books for children including Leaf Magic and A Lion in the Meadow	MAHY