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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 22nd July 2023

There are 35 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 22nd July 2023. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 11: Married name of the 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Augusta Ada Byron who, in her writings about Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, pondered the notion of AI-generated music
AAcross 12: Michelangelo’s 17-foot-tall sculpture, carved out of a single slab of previously rejected white Carrara marble, that became one of the most famous statues in the world
AAcross 13: Thought to derive from early Dutch for “fine bread”, baked rounds or quadrants of plain or fruited dough, subject to a long-running debate as to whether said cakes are spread with jam first, or cream
AAcross 14: An audible bite; a sudden release or breakage of an elastic band; a cold spell; a ginger nut; dialect for a packed lunch; or, a disappearing photo or video sent on a popular chat app
AAcross 15: Based on Persian for “gold”, a toxic element with compounds including orpiment, or king’s yellow as a pigment, once used as an untraceable of murder known as the king of poisons or poison of kings
AAcross 16: The making of a decision by random selection of a straw or a slip of paper etc; or, by extension, an assigned or apportioned share; or, one’s destiny, fate or fortune
AAcross 17: From Middle High German for “nibble” or “eat in secret”, a Yiddish word used as British slang for food
AAcross 18: An onomatopoeic word for a soft sound of a flute, saxophone or trumpet etc; an act of blowing one of the said instruments; or, an amble, leisurely drive or short pleasure trip
AAcross 19: A holler, wail, yell or other inarticulate shout; a slogan, war whoop or watchword; a street trader’s call of wares for sale; or, a fit of weeping, over proverbial spilt milk, for example
AAcross 21: From the French for “green earth”, a greyish-green pigment consisting of powdered glauconite, used for tempera, watercolours and underpainting for pink flesh tonesTERRE VERTE
AAcross 23: A kitchen sideboard for crockery; a table upon which food/meat was prepared for use; a lady’s maid; or, a theatre’s wardrobe assistant, helping actors with costume changes
AAcross 26: From Sanskrit for “instrument of thought”, a sacred word/syllable such as “Om” recited in meditation; or, any frequently repeated motto/phrase
AAcross 28: A heron whose French name, “aigrette”, is used to describe one of said wader’s plumes; or, a feathery crown or “clock” of a dandelion
AAcross 31: A pull or tug; a transported or dragged load; the distance of said load’s conveyance; or, the amount of fish, goods, loot or medals etc caught, purchased, plundered or won
AAcross 33: From the Latin for “bee”, a genus of insects whose hexagonal honeycomb cells were pondered some 2,000 years ago by Roman scholar Varro
AAcross 34: A thin surface layer of ice, milk or oil; a quick read/glance; or, a bounce of a pebble in ducks and drakes
AAcross 36: The arrangement or plan of something ; the format of a printed page; a formation of cards in patience; or, a configuration of dominoes
AAcross 36: The arrangement or plan of something ; the format of a printed page; a formation of cards in patience; or, a configuration of dominoes
AAcross 38: Blackberry- or raspberry-shaped blobs of molten glass fused to a rummer, vase or other piece of glassware for decoration or grip
AAcross 39: From Italian for “alone”, a piece or passage for one voice/instrument
AAcross 40: From “mud, ooze, sludge”, Irish for a mudflat or mire; or, a person regarded as crude, lazy, slovenly or lacking social refinement
AAcross 41: Composer who intended his unfinished Universe Symphony to be performed by orchestras stationed on mountains overlooking valleys
AAcross 43: Word for a spindle’s flywheel or wharve originally, later a pattern of concentric circles; a single convolution in a spiral shell; a radial arrangement of petals or leaves; or, a gyre or swirl in a fingerprint
AAcross 45: Word, from Old French for “bell” and medieval Greek for “drum”, for klang, sound quality or tone colour
AAcross 46: A toy, also called a moppet, that is typically homemade from remnants or scraps of cloth; or, as one word, a luxuriantly coated blue-eyed catRAG DOLL
AAcross 49: A fruit-and-nut biscuit with a plain chocolate base; silk/satin historically imported from the Tuscan capital; a pie without a crust beneath the meat; or, a Modena-like fancy pigeon
AAcross 52: Author of The Raven rhyme
AAcross 53: From the Spanish for “peacock”, a slow stately dance evocative of the courtly swishing of said fowl’s train
AAcross 55: Loop for drawing stage curtains, hence the drapes themselves ; or, flaps attached to files or index cards
AAcross 57: Any one of the tutelary Roman household gods worshipped in association with the penates
AAcross 58: From the Italian for “thick paper”, a preliminary sketch/modello of a fresco or tapestry; or, a comic drawing
AAcross 60: Word for a cessation whose root, meaning “league” or “mile”, refers to a distance after which one pauses
AAcross 61: A suckerfish whose name, from Latin for “delay, hindrance”, alludes to its supposed habit of slowing ships
AAcross 62: From the Persian for “king”, a game from whose name a word for a pattern of squares derives
AAcross 63: A triangular typically apple-filled pastry; an old word for a small shawl; a company’s gross revenue; or, a front-page article, continued overleafTURN OVER
DDown 1: A cloudburst or rainstorm
DDown 2: A spouted vessel such as a Brown Betty, often kept warm with a cosyTEA POT
DDown 3: A pageant, parry, prance, procession or public promenade
DDown 4: Italian designer who created the iconic “safety pin” gown worn by Elizabeth Hurley to the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere in 1994
DDown 5: Garden from which Adam and Eve were expelled for eating forbidden fruit scrumped from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
DDown 6: “Cobbler’s-awl” or “scooper” known collectively as an orchestra, adopted as the RSPB’s symbol of protection
DDown 7: A feldspar mineral known as moonstone when displaying an opalescent play of colours
DDown 8: In meteorology, a contour line on a weather map connecting points with equal mean summer temperature
DDown 9: A snail ommatophore or tentacle whose drawing in is alluded to in a phrase referring to restraint or thrift
DDown 10: Term coined in the 1950s for a class of rich and fashionable people who fly/travel widely for pleasureJET SET
DDown 20: Sharing a root with the Greek for “season”, a unit of time upon which the calendar or an almanac is based
DDown 22: A morning person who gets up with the lark; or, one who arrives ahead of time, rather than fashionably lateEARLY BIRD
DDown 24: Sun in —; term for a heraldic representation of the Sun in its glory with rays and a human face
DDown 25: Actress Dame Edith who delivered the famous “handbag” line in her role as Lady Bracknell
DDown 27: A capture or catch; one’s view; a scene filmed without interruption; or, a sign of successful vaccination
DDown 29: Meaning “dove”, an old German monoplane with recurved wings
DDown 30: High-pitched barks of small dogs; or, with definite article, wrist spasms of golfers or other athletes, similar to the “dartitis” of darts players
DDown 32: A “sagitta”, such as that inflicting a poisonous wound said to be healed with the root or starch of “herbe aux flèches”; or, a sugarcane tassel
DDown 35: From the name of a historical alley in London for playing a croquet-like game, a shaded or sheltered walk; or, an enclosed shopping centre
DDown 36: Zodiacal sign represented by a symbol of the scales of justice 
DDown 37: Bivalve mollusc whose hinged shells inspired the flip phone
DDown 42: A cast-off, descent, fall, lowering or plummet of something such as an aitch, goal, name, stitch or a metaphorical brick or clanger
DDown 44: Seat of the Marquesses of Bath near Horningsham in WiltshireLONGLEAT
DDown 45: A channel carrying water away from a mill, turbine or water wheel
DDown 47: Sculptor of the bronze lions at the base of Nelson’s Column whose painting Quiz depicts a belled Maltese, a mouse and a St BernardLANDSEER
DDown 48: A smooth white sauce or “blanc” of roux blond enriched with stock
DDown 50: A chief, front-runner, pathfinder, trailblazer or other person who shows the way by going first
DDown 51: Town in England’s north noted for its curranty cakes or pastries once banned by Cromwell’s puritans
DDown 53: A forest or grove of cone- and needle-bearing trees; or, a hothouse or pit in which ananases are grown
DDown 54: From French for “become green”, an old heraldic term meaning “charged with green leaves”, as a bordure
DDown 56: A trudge; a wallop; a hard cricket shot emphasising strength over skill; or, a spell of strenuous/tedious work
DDown 59: Blush-like wine whose name, derived from the French for “pink”, indicates its carnation-like colour
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