Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 29th July 2023

There are 34 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 29th July 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	From the Latin for “block of wood”, a manuscript volume, such as the 10th-century Exeter Book comprising around 100 riddles and an anthology of some 40 poems including The Seafarer and The Wanderer
AAcross 10:	From the Italian for “little pigs” or “piglets”, champagne cork-shaped wild edible ceps, “kings of mushrooms” or penny-buns that are highly prized by chefs and foragers
AAcross 11:	A bend in a road; a swindle; a silk thread; a mixed drink; a spiral-shaped barley sugar, roll of bread/tobacco, sliver of lemon zest or wineglass stem; or, a style of hip-gyrating dance
AAcross 13:	Vessel for rowing or sailing said to “turn turtle” when capsized; or, a jug or saucière, shaped like said watercraft, from which to pour gravy or other such condiment
AAcross 14:	Word denoting an alfresco activity such as camping, canoeing, clam-digging, climbing, cold-water swimming or cycling, or a person fond of such sporting or leisure pursuits
AAcross 15:	A migration of salmon or other fish upstream; a downward trickle of paint; a track made or used by a particular animal; or, a sprint, such as that when undergoing the punishment of the gauntlet
AAcross 16:	A feathered vertebrate, such as the onomatopoeically named chachalaca, chickadee, chat, chiffchaff, corncrake, cuckoo or curlew; or, a shuttlecock
AAcross 17:	An aspis, buckler, heater or targe; an escutcheon or trophy shaped like the third example; a French écu; or, something serving to protect, such as a chelonian’s carapace
AAcross 18:	Nickname of the “chrysanth”, whose full name stems from Greek for “gold flower”; an informal name for one’s mater; noun meaning “silence”; or, an interjection calling for such
AAcross 20:	The ritual of admitting a new member into a society or group in an often secret ceremony of the same name; or, any act of beginning
AAcross 22:	A tizzy or sixpence; a quizzer or examiner; a canopy over a four-poster bed; or, a miniature pot of paint, a sample or a scent, for one to try
AAcross 25:	From Latin meaning “to weave”, word for a rich cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads originally, later a disposable paper hankie
AAcross 27:	A stockpile; a place to save or squirrel away said stash; a cow, pig, sheep or other beast being fattened for market; or, a supermarket or shop
AAcross 30:	A fruit said to be in one’s mouth when one has an accent thought typical of English upper classes
AAcross 32:	An eye’s choroid layer that takes its name from the Latin for “grape”, for its resemblance to said berry
AAcross 33:	Blocks of chocolate or soap; ingots of gold; counters in cafés or pubs; or, metal rods, behind which prisoners are detained in jails
AAcross 35:	A variety of quartz; or, a short word for the often pale blue stoneware perfected by Josiah Wedgwood
AAcross 37:	From Arabic for “vault”, an arched niche in a room; or, a shady retreat, such as a bower or summerhouse or a recess in a garden hedge/wall, provided with seats
AAcross 38:	Word for a tree originally, hence its survival in names of arbors including the “horn” and “white” species; or, a transverse timber of a ship, hence the greatest width of said vessel
AAcross 39:	An excavation giving access to oil or water; a natural mineral spring; a nautical cockpit; a lift-shaft; or, an inkpot housed in a hole in a desk
AAcross 40:	Forename of the author who created the character Velvet Brown, who wins the Grand National on a piebald horse won in a village raffle
AAcross 42:	Pommes frites-like sticks of deep-fried potato, traditionally served in cones or parcels of newspaper; poker tokens; or, fragments of stone
AAcross 44:	The nutlike kernel of a pastel-coloured sugar-panned dragée or comfit, often used as a confetto
AAcross 45:	Drainpipes or gargoyles; nozzles, sparklers or swan necks for dispensing beer; pouring tubes of teapots; or, the blowholes or blowings of whales
AAcross 48:	Philatelic book in which to house a collection of postage labels by means of gummed hinges or mounts	STAMP ALBUM
AAcross 51:	Invisible “ether” forming the atmosphere and supporting all life on Earth; a light breeze; or, a melody
AAcross 52:	Studied by a microscopist, a green alga whose presence in a pond, river or steam is often a bioindicator of fresh or unpolluted water
AAcross 54:	A cross-like Egyptian hieroglyph representing the word “life” and symbolising life itself
AAcross 56:	From the Latin for “two”, a piece of music composed for a brace, couple, pair or twain of pianists, opera singers, violinists or other performers of the same name
AAcross 57:	A rhombus or diamond; or, a pastille/troche or heraldic charge in the shape of said geometric figure
AAcross 59:	From the Sanskrit for “colour, tone”, a traditional Indian melodic type expressing a mood, season or time
AAcross 60:	From the Greek for “revel”, a quality that arouses laughter or mirth; a humorist, joker or wit; or, a book or magazine with a series of funnies accompanied by fumetti
AAcross 61:	A frozen cascade, such as that at Everest’s Khumbu Glacier	ICE FALL
AAcross 62:	A collier; a type of insect that makes galleries in leaves; a blockchain validator in the realm of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency; or, a honeyeater in the genus Manorina
DDown 1:	Tchaikovsky’s cursed swan queen in his classical ballet Swan Lake	ODETTE
DDown 2:	City whose 922-year-old university hosts an annual tortoise fair where its colleges race their testudinal pets to the edge of a lettuce circle
DDown 3:	From the Greek for “to cut short”, a summary or miniature form; or, a perfect example of something
DDown 4:	The “Ship” constellation
DDown 5:	Physicist whose metre-kilogram-second system of measurement formed the basis of SI units	GIORGI
DDown 6:	French word used to refer to a bibliopole or a bookseller
DDown 7:	Items of kitchenalia forming a chef or cook’s batterie de cuisine
DDown 8:	Word for a bodily organ originally, now for an arm, leg or wing
DDown 9:	From the French for “hook”, handiwork executed in wool or other yarn with said implement
DDown 12:	The trunk of a human body; or, a statue without a head/bust or the members described in 8 Down
DDown 19:	From the Old English for “strength”, a word for power or force; the chief part; a principal cable, duct or pipe; or, the high sea or open ocean
DDown 21:	Word for a bundle originally, later a bride’s clothes and linen collected in a dowry chest for her marriage
DDown 23:	Word first for an ancient Greek drinking party with convivial discussion, later a conference
DDown 24:	Composition or “study” intended to test or improve a player’s technique or virtuosity
DDown 26:	A join between two pieces of cloth, wallpaper or wood, e.g.
DDown 28:	Fragrant honey-coloured tree resin with a lemony piney aroma
DDown 29:	Designer of the V&A’s façade
DDown 31:	A pale violet or lavender colour evocative of a fragrant flower of the same name in the olive family
DDown 34:	From “to sow”, a testa-encased plant embryo; a fragment of coral; a baby oyster; a crystal that initiates crystallisation; or, a bubble in glass
DDown 35:	From the Persian for “rosewater”, a sweet herbal or medicated drink; or, a cocktail of bourbon and mint
DDown 36:	Word for a tax or rent originally, later a croft, grange, ranch or other agricultural holding for cultivation
DDown 41:	Ballerina immortalised in cream and meringue through the pudding that carries her surname, Pavlova
DDown 43:	More commonly called a pomelo, the largest of all the citrus fruits
DDown 44:	From “elixir of life”, “immortal”, the food of the gods in classical mythology; anything delicious, fragrant or sweet; or, bee-bread
DDown 46:	Informal word for one regarded as lively, modern and social; a cricket ball that deviates sideways in flight; or, an off-centre gramophone record
DDown 47:	A small wheel or castor; the act of rolling slowly; a wheeled bed; a quill of gold thread in heraldry; or, a hoop
DDown 49:	A keynote; a stressed syllable in a word; quinine water to mix with gin; or, any restorative or pick-me-up
DDown 50:	From dialect for “fool”, a hairstyle described by Chambers Dictionary as “short at the front, long at the back and ridiculous all round”
DDown 52:	From Old English for “joy, music”, oneiric or somnial sequences of images, sensations and thoughts experienced during REM sleep
DDown 53:	From Greek for “Pan-pipes”, the song-making organ of any one of the “orniths” described in 16 Across
DDown 55:	The cannabis plant; or, its fibre
DDown 58:	Sharing its root with “jealousy”, a word for intense or fanatical ardour; or, a herd or “dazzle” of zebra