Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 14th October 2023

There are 30 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 14th October 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	From the Latin for “night owl”, a generic name for an owlet-moth, such as a burnished brass, clay, drinker, green arches, grey dagger, heart and dart, wainscot or “wonder of the day” merveille du jour
AAcross 10:	A single fishling or fingerling; children, froglets, salmon hatchlings or other small young things collectively; a potato chip; or, a dish or meal of food sizzled in hot oil
AAcross 11:	From French roughly translating as “birds that hover above flaxseed”, melodic finches of farmland, named for their fondness of said seed
AAcross 13:	From Provençal for “capers”, a savoury spread or dip-like hors d’oeuvre based on said pickled flower-buds, pulverised with anchovies, black olives, garlic, lemon juice and oil
AAcross 14:	A single point in space-time; a fair, festival, fête, fixture, gala, party, race or other memorable, planned, public or social occasion; a contingency; or, any happening generally
AAcross 15:	A tortoise-like marine chelonian named by English sailors; said terrapin’s flesh, used for soup; or, an old name for a species of dove, symbolic of devoted or true love
AAcross 16:	Slivers, such as adhesive leaves for sealing letters; biscuits or thins for ice cream; discs or hosts of unleavened bread for Communion; or, slices of silicon for microchips
AAcross 17:	Any one of the gigantic offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth) after whom an element, a mighty ship, Saturn’s largest moon and the body’s biggest protein derive their names
AAcross 18:	From Latin for “bee”, a term for a bee-master/mistress who keeps a colony of said eusocial insects for their beeswax, honey and royal jelly
AAcross 20:	From “shovel” or “spade”, a board with a thumb hole on which an artist mixes paints; or, by extension, an assortment or range of colours
AAcross 23:	From French for “dainty”, a small almond cake, similar to a financier but with the addition of fruit; or, in France, a sausage roll
AAcross 25:	Word, said to be a humorous pseudo-Latin combination of “stare” and “I shall”, for a belvedere, garden pavilion or summerhouse, sited to command an extensive view
AAcross 28:	From French for “grey”, a monochromatic painting executed entirely in shades of grey, in imitation of stone sculpture; or, the original stained glass in this manner
AAcross 30:	A coil in string or yarn; a picot; a jubilee clip; or, a manoeuvre in which a plane describes a circle in the air
AAcross 32:	Named after a shellfish and once synonymous with crimson, a colour mixed from blue and red, associated with bishops, emperors, nobility, ornateness, royalty and wealth
AAcross 34:	From Latin for “cloud”, a word for a hint, nicety, shade, suggestion, tinge, tint or other such subtlety
AAcross 36:	Surname of Tolkien’s hobbit Pippin, whose true name, Peregrin, is taken from the Latin for “pilgrim”
AAcross 37:	Raised paths or roads crossing water, defined by Thomas Fuller in The History of the Worthies of England as “bridges over dirt”
AAcross 40:	An aphetic form of a word for protection, used to describe barriers, palings or railings for bounding, enclosing or protecting land
AAcross 42:	Based on “to cut”, a word for an individual fact or item; an area of a painting or map considered/studied separately from the whole; or, a body of troops set apart for special duty
AAcross 43:	From French for “crow, raven”, the black-green colour of said corvids
AAcross 46:	Paired with “verre”, an ancient method of engraving, gilding or painting the reverse of a sheet of glass to create a soft mirrored effect
AAcross 48:	Word for “palace” in India that, paired with “Taj”, refers to the “crown of buildings” in Agra	MAHAL
AAcross 49:	From Greek for “mosquito”, word for a net over a bed originally, later for various overhead things, including an awning, parachute, parasol, the sky or a tree’s crowning overstory
AAcross 51:	From “raise up”, a word for deliverance from burden, pain or stress; comfort thereafter; a sculpture protruding from a background; a rest or breather; or, aid to the poor
AAcross 53:	One of the mythical sailor-luring enchantresses whose seductive song is used in reference to something enticing but potentially dangerous
AAcross 54:	A process of brewing, soaking or steeping herbs or tea leaves; or, the extract, drink or remedy obtained
AAcross 55:	Pertaining to the safe regular round of a dairyman/woman, a term for a routine flight or other uneventful journey or mission	MILK RUN
AAcross 56:	Word, related to Latin for “to sing”, for a female chicken or other fowl
AAcross 57:	A lively folk dance/party with its roots in America’s rural past; or, said shindig’s associated country music
DDown 1:	Term for a figure of speech originally, later a diagram of the aspects of celestial objects, hence a chart, design, outline or plan
DDown 2:	Large-brained bipedal Homines sapientes in the Hominidae family with the bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and “handy men”
DDown 3:	A short or informal word for blurbs, commercials, jingles, plugs, pop-ups, trailers or other public promotions
DDown 4:	Oblation of bread and wine at the Eucharist; a collection of alms from the congregation during said service; or, a contribution or gift generally
DDown 5:	From “viper”, a type of dragon important in heraldry, along with other beasts including the camelopard, cockatrice, phoenix and unicorn
DDown 6:	Word for an edging of flowers or turf in a garden; a level fascia on an architrave; an ornamental lintel; a fillet separating the flutings of a Classical column; a level arch; or, any border
DDown 7:	Needlework involving purling, ravelling, stitching and other methods of interlacing woollen yarn
DDown 8:	From the Latin for “equal”, one’s confrère or fellow; or, a noble
DDown 9:	Canadian river, site of a triple cascade including Bridal Veil Falls and Horseshoe Falls, traditionally popular with honeymooners
DDown 12:	A preparation of spirit of hartshorn with eucalyptus or lavender as a traditional inhalant for rousing consciousness after fainting
DDown 19:	Sharp implement, such as the cut-throat and weapon of choice used by “the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, Sweeney Todd
DDown 21:	Greek word for dawn, given as the genus name of a species of lory with red-and-blue plumage, reminiscent of the colours of the sky at daybreak
DDown 22:	French word for “cloth”, used to refer to the plain fabric used to create the pattern or muslin for a couture or made-to-measure garment
DDown 24:	A seafarer’s traditional hail, proposed by Alexander Graham Bell as a standard phone greeting
DDown 26:	From old Dutch for “lover”, a word for a darling, sweetheart or male chum originally, later a ruffian, overbearing thug or tormentor
DDown 27:	Word for something even or level, such as a ballet shoe, grassy plain or line on a monitor when the heart stops beating; or, an apartment
DDown 29:	French for “red”, hence a word for blusher or wine such as claret
DDown 31:	The pointed top of something, such as a mountain or a meringue
DDown 32:	From Italian for “pound, crush”, a sauce of basil crushed in a mortar with a similarly named utensil
DDown 33:	From “broken”, a word, from the idea of a broken army, for a defeat
DDown 35:	Snack also called a tortilla chip
DDown 38:	A structure spun by a spider; thus anything complex, entangling or flimsy; or, a piece of woven cloth
DDown 39:	A fulgurous flash or fork, feared by an astraphobic and produced in a cumulonimbus, aka thundercloud
DDown 41:	A cannon or volcano, emitting flames; an iconic aircraft of the Battle of Britain; a model of Triumph car; or, one with a hot or explosive temper
DDown 42:	Size for stiffening textiles; a sauce such as vinaigrette; a US word for farce, forcemeat or stuffing; a scolding; gauze or lint for a wound; or, organic matter applied to the land
DDown 44:	Swiss herder’s instrument traditionally blown for the evening calling of cattle grazing over the mountain pastures in the summer
DDown 45:	From “cunning”, a word for artifice, manual dexterity, skill or trickery
DDown 47:	Word for a bright glow such as a sunbeam originally, later for a faint or dim glow; or, a brief manifestation
DDown 48:	Forename of a pioneering war correspondent whose former husband, Ernest Hemingway, is the “other” referred to in the title of her book Travels with Myself and Another	MARTHA
DDown 49:	From “chest, basket”, a strongbox for valuables; a watertight chamber; or, a sunken lacunar in a ceiling
DDown 50:	Greek word for a poem describing a homecoming or a return journey
DDown 52:	Word for a cay, inch or skerry, found in place names including Man, Mull, Portland and Wight