Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 15th July 2023

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	A keen bricklayer who painted Bottlescape, Mallows, Study of Roses, Tapestries at Blenheim and View from Chartwell and served twice as prime minister, leading Britain to victory during the Second World War
AAcross 12:	From Greek or Latin for “pearl”, the French name for a white-rayed wild flower of field margins, grassland, meadows and verges, also called an ox-eye daisy or moonpenny
AAcross 13:	One of a pair of single berths or shelflike beds, one above the other; or, from the name of a North Carolinian county alluded to in an inane speech, a word for claptrap, humbug or tedious nonsense
AAcross 14:	Abbreviated name of a humane society founded in Old Slaughter’s Coffee House almost 200 years ago by a group of animal lovers including “Humanity Dick” and William Wilberforce	R S P C A
AAcross 15:	From Latin for “hollow places”, aviaries, hutches and other such coops; prisons; dialect for squirrels’ dreys; or, netted structures for protecting garden fruit from birds
AAcross 16:	From a word for “cooking pot” or “jar”, a Spanish hotchpotch-like stew; or by extension, a miscellany, mishmash, potpourri or vaudeville
AAcross 17:	Word for a meal taken in the evening, yet derived from Old French meaning “to have breakfast”
AAcross 18:	Cordage whose figurative showing to learners or novices stems from sailing; or, strands of pearls, strings of onions or cords attached to soaps
AAcross 20:	Colour of the owl and the pussy-cat’s boat described in a nonsense poem penned by Edward Lear	PEA-GREEN
AAcross 22:	Rodent whose name, thought to derive from French for “waffle” or “honeycomb”, evokes the critter’s honeycomb of burrows
AAcross 25:	A battle; a gesture; a lawsuit; the main exciting goings-on; events forming a play or story’s plot; or, a film director’s command to begin
AAcross 27:	The act of carrying/sending goods out of a country; the commodity sent; a high standard suitable for said trade; or, a variety of strong brown beer
AAcross 30:	Queen dowager who married Thomas Seymour soon after the death of her husband, Henry VIII
AAcross 32:	Bowed stringed instrument developed in the Renaissance, for which musicians including Byrd, Dowland and Purcell have composed works for consort or chest
AAcross 33:	Brief applications or gentle touches of concealer, ink, paint, scent etc; brown flatfishes; experts; slang for fingerprints; or, smidgens
AAcross 35:	Word for a horse’s fastest run originally, later a heavy blow; a boxer’s ability to deliver a powerful punch; financial, influential or physical clout; a thick piece of fat; or, beer
AAcross 37:	Aliases, blankets, book jackets, disguises, envelopes, lids, record sleeves and other concealments
AAcross 38:	Females of herdwicks, Suffolks, Swaledales and all other sheep
AAcross 39:	Something flat and round, such as a CD, cutter of a harrow, daisy’s “eye”, gramophone record, quoit, plate or an old tax label for a motor vehicle
AAcross 40:	The name of the smallest Greek letter, from which “jot”, as a word for a small amount, derives
AAcross 42:	Buoyant things, such as the balls of ballcocks, corks/quills of fishing-lines, dolphins for mooring, lifebelts, rafts or scoops of ice cream in cola
AAcross 44:	An artist’s model; a broody hen on her clutch of eggs; a childminder; a church seat; an easy catch/shot in sport; or, a séance participant
AAcross 45:	Alluding to the sleeping habits of a pet feline, a daytime doze or snooze, especially without lying down
AAcross 48:	A cowboy/girl or cattle-herder; an animal handler/trainer on a film set; a noisy disputant; or, one who has gained first-class honours in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge
AAcross 50:	From French for “fruit-stone” and Latin for “nut”, almond- or marzipan-flavoured liqueur made by infusing apricot, cherry or peach kernels
AAcross 51:	An old word for a painter whose other various meanings include manuscript-illuminator, miniaturist and itinerant portraitist
AAcross 53:	An old sailors’ term meaning “shipshape, prepared for bad weather” that came to mean “cosy”; or, a comfortable room in a pub
AAcross 55:	A misinterpreted word that became the name of the zigzag-patterned common viper that is the UK’s only venomous snake
AAcross 56:	From Latin for “murmur” and Italian for “word”, a saying such as that forming part of a heraldic achievement; a quotation prefacing a book/chapter; or, a recurring musical phrase
AAcross 57:	From Latin for “that which has been spoken”, a word for the judgment or sentence of the gods that came to mean a person’s “lot”
AAcross 58:	Informal word for preadolescent boys or girls from around 9-12 who, according to Chambers Dictionary, have “already developed an interest in fashion, pop music, and exasperating his or her parents”
AAcross 59:	Herbs, pepper, salt, spices etc for enhancing food’s flavour; the process of wood drying; or, acclimatisation
DDown 1:	Reconnoitring; or, the activities of the members of a youth association with the slogan “be prepared”
DDown 2:	Effie Gray’s art critic first husband who revived the tradition of maypole dancing in England
DDown 3:	Player who claims a goal, run, try etc; or, an official whose job it is to record said points during a game
DDown 4:	Pincers; grasping chelae of crabs or lobsters; informal word for children; slang for cutpurses; or, handcuffs
DDown 5:	Pen name under which Charles Lamb wrote his essays including The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
DDown 6:	Farmers’ traditional linen garments with honeycombing; fishermen or artists’ overalls; chemises; or, shifts
DDown 7:	The genus of gallinaceous birds that are known horned pheasants
DDown 8:	An awning, parasol or “umbel” for protection against solar rays
DDown 9:	On the pattern of solo, duo etc, a word for a group of three singers or instrumentalists; or, a piece of music written for them to perform
DDown 10:	A hit, such as that delivered with a hammer when the proverbial iron is hot; or, from the act of lowering a flag or sail, a refusal to work as a protest
DDown 19:	One’s right of choice; the crème de la crème; a mattock; or, a harvest of flowers, fruit or figurative cherries
DDown 21:	A feeling of aversion or disgust; or, in physics, the phenomenon whereby two electric charges or magnetic poles push each other away
DDown 23:	From Italian for “cowrie shell”, a white translucent ceramic material with a finish reminiscent of a polished shell; or, chinaware made from this
DDown 24:	Related to the German for “nightmare”, beings originally thought of as more dwarfish and frightening than the fairylike mischievous sprites typically depicted today
DDown 26:	Forename of a physiologist whose experiments feeding dogs led to his discovery of classical conditioning	IVAN
DDown 28:	A hen house; the branch, nest or other perch of a sleeping bird; or, a group of fowls resting together
DDown 29:	Related to a Sanskrit term for “safe dwelling”, a word for one’s abode, where one’s proverbial heart is
DDown 31:	A coral reef enclosing a lagoon
DDown 34:	Sea-going vessel said to “come in” when someone’s fortune is made
DDown 35:	Old word for a male sorcerer, which has been revived by modern pagans as the name of their religion
DDown 36:	Word in medieval times for a cupel in which to assay gold or silver, later for any critical trial or examination
DDown 41:	A mass noun for various people or things, including beauties, girls, ladies, larks, quail, roe deer and swans
DDown 43:	Small golden raisins baked with currants in fruitcakes or tea bread
DDown 44:	Device for reducing documents or papers into unreadable strips; any virtuoso guitarist who plays very fast; a snowboarder; or, a cheese grater
DDown 46:	Word for an illusion or conjuring trick originally, that came to mean respect and admiration owing to quality, status, success, wealth etc
DDown 47:	A class of twilled fabric such as corduroy, moleskin or velveteen; grandiloquence or pomposity; or, an old negus-like drink with egg yolks
DDown 49:	Fame, typically of a good kind
DDown 50:	Chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics
DDown 51:	Cosmonaut who, in 1965, performed the first ever space walk	LEONOV
DDown 52:	A plate smaller than a twiffler; a cupcake that bulges over the top of its paper case; or, a flat savoury bun eaten split, toasted and buttered
DDown 54:	From “fool”, a word for a nerd that once referred to a carnival “wild man” whose gruesome act included biting the head off a chicken or a snake
DDown 56:	A portion of pulpy or sloppy food; a military dining-hall; a meal served in said room; or, a dog’s breakfast, floordrobe, pig’s ear or shambles