Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 17th June 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 17th June 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Ornithologist and author of Birds of the West Indies whose name was appropriated by novelist and keen birdwatcher Ian Lancaster Fleming for his iconic fictional secret agent code-numbered 007
AAcross 12:	Sugary frosting for decorating and enhancing pastries and sweetmeats, such as the variety designated “royal” following its employment on the large cake made for Queen Victoria’s wedding to Prince Albert in 1840
AAcross 13:	With species including henbit and the purple/yellow archangel, a perennial in the mint family thought to be named for its virtue of not stinging, unlike plants with similar leaves in the genus Urtica	DEAD-NETTLE
AAcross 14:	Word for an animal’s pelt that shares a prehistoric root with the Latin cutis; an Old English unit of land sufficient to support a household; or, a birdwatcher’s or gamekeeper’s camouflaged shelter in the wilds
AAcross 15:	An insect whose social nature inspired the name of a get-together for amusement, communal work or competition in knitting, quilting, sewing or spelling, for example
AAcross 16:	Steel lines forming train tracks, which one is said to have “gone off” when out of control; batons on which to hang pictures above dados; or, secretive birds in an order that includes the coots and flufftails
AAcross 17:	With symbols including a pruning knife and cornucopia, a Roman wood nymph goddess of abundance, apples/fruit, gardens and orchards	POMONA
AAcross 18:	From the Latin for “cask, wineskin”, one of the narrow-necked vessels in a wine cellar of which a butler was originally in charge; or, a word for courage, nerve or pluck
AAcross 19:	Cant or jargon, such as that in the cockney rhyming style encompassing phrases such as apples and pears, china plate, mince pies, syrup of figs and treacle tart
AAcross 21:	Named for its original use heating a pot of char or “ocha”, a little candle in a metal cup for ambient illumination or for use with a fondue caquelon, food warmer or oil diffuser	TEALIGHT
AAcross 23:	Two letters expressing a single sound, such as the last two in the word in question; or, a typographical ligature, as in æ
AAcross 26:	A horse’s headgear, such as a hackamore; a gesture of indignation or vanity characterised by a toss of the head and drawing in of the chin, as if being reined back; or, any curb
AAcross 28:	Artist and Royal Academician Dame Laura, noted for scenes of circus life, ballet, women at war and for Newlyn School landscapes such as Lamorna Cove and On the Beach
AAcross 31:	From Italian for “blossoming” or “flowering”, a florid embellishment of a melodic line, either notated by the composer or improvised at the discretion of an aria/opera singer
AAcross 32:	Word for male youths, high-spirited men or striplings; or, stable workers, regardless of age/gender
AAcross 34:	From Latin for “shepherd, feeder”, a cleric considered the shepherd of a flock; or, a rose-coloured starling
AAcross 36:	A gallows; the projecting beam of a crane; or, an archaic term meaning “subject to ridicule or derision”
AAcross 38:	A light dressing-gown, outdoor garment, sarong or shawl; a single turn or fold; clingfilm, foil, paper etc covering/concealing food or a gift; or, the end of a session of filming
AAcross 39:	A rich cloth or bards laid over a warhorse or other steed; or, elaborate clothing and ornaments generally
AAcross 42:	A passionate embrace; a grapple by boxers at close quarters; the fastening of a metal nail by bending its tip back; or, a pun/punning retort
AAcross 44:	Price tags; nametapes; pieces of fabric sewn in garments indicating laundry instructions, sizes, designers’ names etc; or, the trademarks/fashion houses of said designers therein
AAcross 45:	Referred to in an idiomatic phrase meaning “between you and me” or “in confidence”, a vertical corner support of a frame bracing a mattress
AAcross 47:	Swedish author of the children’s classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature	LAGERLOF
AAcross 49:	Swahili word for “lion”, used as the name of a Disney feline
AAcross 50:	Translating as “gather together in peace”, name of an African goblet drum played with bare hands
AAcross 52:	A beck, brook, burn, rivulet or other small natural body of running water; or, a flow of anything, such as gas, internet data, meteors, money into a business, people or words
AAcross 54:	Gem/mineral of which the golden-yellow heliodor, green emerald, rosy-pink morganite and teal-blue aquamarine are all varieties
AAcross 56:	Hawaiian garland or necklace of flowers given as a symbol of aloha
AAcross 57:	An aperture for receiving a coin in a fruit machine or one-armed bandit; a place in a broadcasting schedule; or, the tracks/footprints of a deer
AAcross 58:	From Latin for “to speak”, a lexicon of words listed alphabetically with their meanings/etymology
AAcross 59:	Something hooked or bent, such as a bishop’s crosier, shepherd’s staff or the arm at the elbow; or, a villain
AAcross 60:	From Italian for “barley”, risoni pastina in the form of barleycorns
DDown 1:	One of a number of tiles with pips whose arrangement in a toppling sequence illustrates the cumulative effect known as a chain reaction
DDown 2:	A dare-devil, swashbuckler or other thrill-seeker engaging in hazardous deeds; or, a soldier of fortune
DDown 3:	Handy tool often used with a widger when planting bulbs or seeds
DDown 4:	Delicacy and elegant skill in style or performance; subtlety and tact in handling/manipulating situations; or, a technique to win a trick in bridge
DDown 5:	Malay word for a seaweed-derived jelly-like substance used in petri dishes or as a food thickener
DDown 6:	A border on a garment or along a garden path, lawn etc; or, the passementerie, pebbles, sleepers, stones, for example, thus used
DDown 7:	A light plastic unit containing a length of audio/videotape wound on spools; or, a cogset forming part of the anatomy of a bike
DDown 8:	Word, from Dutch for “bite bag”, for a hiker’s or soldier’s bergen
DDown 9:	A branch of a family; a peduncle of a plant; or, the root of a word
DDown 10:	From French for “white”, a word meaning to extract colour; to make celery pale through etiolation; or, to plunge almonds, tomatoes etc in boiling water to loosen their skin
DDown 20:	River flowing through the Yorkshire dale/valley where the black-and-tan “king of terriers” originated
DDown 22:	Flowers in a family that includes sword lilies and blue/yellow flags
DDown 24:	Word for a beginning, such as the first letter of a word or name
DDown 25:	Word that links with “déjeuner” for breakfast, “four” for a fancy or “pain” for a bread roll
DDown 27:	A cart pulled by a draught horse; a timber sledge; or, the uncommon spelling for a squirrel’s nest
DDown 29:	With cinnamon or salmon-pink plumage, crested birds from whose name the word “dupe” derives
DDown 30:	A tie or stalemate; a lottery, raffle or tombola; or, an attraction
DDown 33:	A thick slice of cake or stone
DDown 34:	From French for “beach”, a fashionable example of said strand; or, a bright patch surrounding a sunspot in the chromosphere
DDown 35:	Distinctive attire or costume; clothes generally; fashion of dress; or, figurative guise or semblance
DDown 37:	Word for a large toy marble originally, later for one’s head
DDown 40:	A vague idea or unfounded belief; a parody of take-off; a print run; or, a stamped mark, either on a physical object or on the mind
DDown 41:	Drum rudiment consisting of two almost simultaneous strokes; or, dialect for drivel, a falsehood, an idle fancy, nonsense, a trick or a whim
DDown 43:	First/last quarter lunar phase; or, anything semicircular or crescent-shaped, such as a lens in spectacles or the lunula of a fingernail	HALF-MOON
DDown 44:	A craft designed for rescues at sea; or, a measure taken in an attempt to save a business or investor etc in figurative troubled waters
DDown 46:	A high type of chest-on-chest; a wineglass with a long midsection; or, a top for a smoky chimney
DDown 48:	From Arabic for “flying eagle”, Aquila’s brightest star and one vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism
DDown 49:	Branchlets of flowers or foliage; or, brooches in the form of bouquets
DDown 50:	Tipples that one is said to imbibe like a fish before becoming squiffy or tired and emotional
DDown 51:	From Persian for “brass”, an alloy of copper and tin favoured as a medium for sculpture since antiquity
DDown 53:	Tree shepherds led by Treebeard in J R R Tolkien’s Fangorn Forest	ENTS
DDown 55:	Chance or destiny whose “good” form is said to be incited by a four-leaf clover, rabbit’s foot or horseshoe