Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 24th June 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 24th June 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	A list or schedule of items, such as that detailing hundreds of thousands of Henry VIII’s possessions, including his diadem, furs, jewels, marmoset, palaces, ships, tapestries, textiles and suit of armour with a 51-inch waist
AAcross 12:	District in London that is home to a botanical garden boasting the largest living plant collection on Earth and a gallery of more than 800 paintings by Victorian artist and adventurer Marianne North	KEW
AAcross 13:	A pudding of fruit and cream; the glass goblet in which it is served; or, a carriage with two passenger seats and a cut-down coach body from which a two-door car derives its name
AAcross 14:	From the German for “cake”, a flan or tart with a savoury custard filling, such as the broad bean, spinach and tarragon variety selected by King Charles III and Queen Camilla as the official Coronation dish
AAcross 15:	Staniel or windhover once of lowly status, thought worthy only of a knave in the medieval hierarchy of falconry, hence the title of Barry Hines’s 1968 novel adapted by Ken Loach
AAcross 16:	A handspring, somersault or other acrobatic feat; a clumsy headlong fall; a plummet in value; or, a disorderly heap or tangled mass
AAcross 17:	From French patois for “little blackbird”, a Bordeaux grape variety, named for its resemblance to the blue-black colour of said ouzel
AAcross 18:	Tubes of furled paper upon which actors’ lines were written, hence a homophone for the parts played by said actors; or, miniature loaves
AAcross 20:	Fineness of structure or texture; fragile or graceful beauty; a dainty morsel or special culinary luxury; tact; or, the need for said propriety
AAcross 22:	Word meaning “watertight” in reference to a ship originally, later dependable, firm, loyal or steadfast
AAcross 25:	A long-established practice or ritual, such as tea-drinking; conventions or traditions of a society collectively; or, habitual patronage
AAcross 27:	An onomatopoeia, logo etc conveying the sound of a rush of air/liquid or of motion/speed
AAcross 30:	Forename of Henry VIII’s second wife and Elizabeth I’s mother, whose sister Mary is described by Philippa Gregory as “the other Boleyn girl”
AAcross 31:	The winter coat or fur of a red squirrel, represented heraldically by rows of interlocking blue-and-white bells or shields
AAcross 32:	Word for woody skin quartering a walnut originally, later lemon, orange or other citrus peel for flavouring; or, a quality of gusto, piquancy or relish
AAcross 34:	Related to “lingua”, the source of language and lingo, the fleshy glossa in the mouth for articulating speech
AAcross 36:	A taenia of satin or silk etc with which to make a cockade, fillet or rosette; or, something strip-like, such as a band-saw or a mollusc’s radula
AAcross 38:	A bazaar, boutique or emporium; or, a spell of emption one is said to do until they figuratively drop
AAcross 39:	Marks used as decimal points, full stops, tittles of letters i and j, characters in website addresses, connection points in picture puzzles and non-dash elements in Morse
AAcross 40:	Word for a wild ox originally, later leather made from said animal’s hide; a military coat fashioned from this; or, the dull brownish yellow of oxhide
AAcross 42:	Thick wooden chopping-boards upon which individuals are said to figuratively place their heads or necks when risking their reputations etc
AAcross 44:	A puzzle video game based on matching a series of falling colourful tiles or polyominos to clear levels
AAcross 45:	From the name of a river mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, a winding watercourse; an intricate motif, such as Greek key or fret, with many twists; or, an aimless ramble or wander
AAcross 47:	Marine mollusc with a conical or spiral conch, such as a false trumpet, limpet, moon shell, oyster drill, periwinkle, triton or whelk	SEA SNAIL
AAcross 49:	From French meaning “to hide”, a secret place for ammunition, provisions or treasure; or, a hidden hoard of said items therein
AAcross 50:	Small groups of ferns, grasses or trees; compact masses of hair or mud; extra-thick soles of boots or shoes; heavy treads; or, dull thuds
AAcross 52:	Strand or yarn whose association with precariousness alludes to the anecdotal sword of Damocles
AAcross 54:	Based on “to mow”, grassland habitats also called hayfields/leas
AAcross 56:	The crackling of paper; a dice-box; a maraca- or shaker-like toy for a baby; the rings of a pit-viper’s tail; or, a spell of lively chattering
AAcross 57:	Tomes or volumes traditionally bound in the fine art of bibliopegy
AAcross 58:	A tear in cloth/paper or in a substandard piece of work at Eton; a nag; a roué; or, a strong current/tide
AAcross 59:	From Italian for “beautiful sight”, a gazebo, mirador, summerhouse or turret sited on a rooftop or vantage point so as to command a fine view
DDown 1:	Word with meanings ranging from bodily shape to numerical symbol
DDown 2:	The hobby or practice of fancying, keeping or rearing birds
DDown 3:	From “to cut”, a segmented animal such as a butterfly, dragonfly, fire ant, honey bee, katydid or ladybird
DDown 4:	Preparation of food by means of baking, frying, roasting, steaming or other application of heat; or, a place for practicing said culinary art
DDown 5:	Oculi that move rapidly during the fourth phase of slumber, called REM sleep, when dreaming occurs
DDown 6:	Petticoat-like garments; or, things suggestive of these, such as saddle flaps, hovercraft aprons or lower parts of coats/dresses or sheep fleeces
DDown 7:	Dated word for people of rank and fashion forming le bon ton or beau monde collectively
DDown 8:	Short runs; ships’ hatchways that can be opened to deliberately sink said vessels; or, fireside coal hods
DDown 9:	Coal dust or colliery waste; inferior anthracite; or, from Latin for “stalk”, a stem of a grass or sedge
DDown 10:	Author of The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and Cautionary Tales for Children featuring pen-and-ink illustrations by his friend Lord Basil Temple Blackwood, or “BTB”
DDown 19:	A scowl or menacing glare; or, by extension, a dark, gloomy or threatening appearance of the sky
DDown 21:	A simple garland or wreath as a headdress originally, later a more grandiose jewelled diadem of a king or queen; or, the top of an arch, cut gem, hat, head, pineapple or tree
DDown 23:	Victorian artist remembered for his political cartoons in Punch and for illustrations in Lewis Carroll’s novels about the adventures of Alice
DDown 24:	A gathering of 13 witches; or, any secret or close-knit clique
DDown 26:	Piles of wet sand supporting golf balls prior to the invention of the pegs of the same name used today; or, the exact centres of houses in curling
DDown 28:	A walk while dragging one’s feet; an act of mixing cards in a pack; a change of ministers; or, a play of one’s tracks/songs in a random order
DDown 29:	Hogs and sows kept or tended to in the practice of sybotism
DDown 33:	Any one of numerous manual implements, from arrowhead, burin, flake, flint or tranchet of the Stone Age to the jigsaw or power drill of today
DDown 34:	Sensation of a salty, savoury, sharp, sour, spicy or sweet flavour, as studied in neurogastronomy; or, a sample of a food or wine or of any experience
DDown 35:	A riverbank burrow or den of an otter; or, an old or poetic word for a copse, orchard or wooded hill
DDown 37:	From an old word for “he-goats”, the males of deer, hares, rabbits, rats or the first mentioned animals
DDown 40:	Word for raised ways in parapets originally, later upholstered benches; long seats behind drivers of French diligences; or, footbridges
DDown 41:	Metal used in the galvanisation of buckets, corrugated roofs, old bathtubs, planters, troughs, watering cans and other domestic utensils
DDown 43:	Cosmic particles; a distant cluster of astral bodies appearing as a cloud; imaginary powder that makes one blind to reality; or, glamour
DDown 44:	Sometimes described as the biological equivalent of an aglet that prevents a shoelace from fraying, the protective tip of a chromosome
DDown 46:	Supposedly sneaky stoat-like animals from whom deceitful, furtive or sly humans derive a nickname
DDown 48:	From Greek for “early manhood”, an 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece, especially when training to be a full citizen or a soldier
DDown 49:	Word, thought to derive from the name of molluscs that are difficult to prise apart, for grips or vices
DDown 50:	An angle, nook, pickle or plight
DDown 51:	A small ball, pill or piece of shot; or, the undigested cast of an owl
DDown 53:	Greek love god after whom Freud named a theory of life instinct
DDown 55:	Golden globes of royal regalia; or, a poetic word for moons, planets or for the ocelli described in 5 Down