Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 30th September 2023

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Elusive chat or “Philomel” of scrub, thicket or woodland, whose lilting melodious nocturnal serenades have captured the imagination of artists, authors, musicians and poets throughout history
AAcross 10:	Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault’s Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Rose
AAcross 11:	Word, based on “chaos” and coined by Jan Baptista van Helmont, for a fundamental state of matter, such as the carbon dioxide identified by said chemist; or, in another sense, empty boastful talk or bluster
AAcross 13:	Related to species including the wych and the winged wahoo, tall ulmaceous trees whose wood was used to make water pumps in English villages, as well as wagon wheels and Welsh longbows
AAcross 14:	A divine messenger of the highest order, or one ranking eighth in the celestial hierarchy; a name of a herb with aromatic hollow stems, often candied for cakes or puddings; a breed of fancy pigeon; or, the dead-nettle
AAcross 15:	A man’s soft cap, such as the Scots Glengarry or Tam o’ Shanter; a woman or child’s hat with ribbons tied under the chin and brim framing the face; a cowl on a chimney; or, a velvet cap within a coronet in heraldry
AAcross 16:	A species of green parrot; a russet slave-making ant; one of a tribe of legendary warrioresses, hence an athletic, strong or tall woman/virago; the world’s largest rainforest; or, the vast “river sea” flowing through it
AAcross 18:	From “place”, the site or scene of any happening or crime; the position of a gene on a chromosome; a set of mathematical points; a passage in writing; or, whereabouts generally
AAcross 19:	From Greek for “storehouse” and the source of “thesaurus”, a word for a hoard, store or trove of bullion, coins, gems or other valuables; wealth/riches generally; or, a gem of a person
AAcross 21:	From Latin for “little crown”, the name given to the circlet or whorl of petals crowning a flower’s calyx
AAcross 23:	A hesperidium with aromatic zest and juicy segmented flesh; or, its corresponding colour, similar to apricot, carrot, ginger, papaya, peach, persimmon and saffron
AAcross 25:	Old English word for “shore” from which a street in London, parallel to the Thames, derives its name; or, a single length of hair
AAcross 28:	From “young animal/chicken” and “foal” and sharing its root with “poultry”, a small horse, less than 14.2 hands high; a little glass of beer or liqueur; or, anything small of its kind
AAcross 30:	From Latin for “cask”, a word, sharing its root with a term for a barrel-maker, for a poultry cage
AAcross 30:	From Latin for “cask”, a word, sharing its root with a term for a barrel-maker, for a poultry cage
AAcross 31:	Old English word for the bark of a tree or peel of fruit that, from the 16th century, also came to refer to the outer layer, paring or skin of a cheese
AAcross 32:	Based on “go round, rotate, wheel”, a word for the rounding up of cattle; pens holding said bovines; or, exhibitions of cowboy/girl skills
AAcross 34:	From “blooming”‚ a word used to mean abounding in blossoms; chintzy, grandiloquent, overly adorned or richly ornamental; flushed or rosy of complexion; or, bright in colour
AAcross 36:	Word for a trickle that is also used to refer to a weakling or bore
AAcross 37:	Tudor mansion in Middlesex that was remodelled by Robert Adam in the 1760s for his patron, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland	SYON
AAcross 38:	Game that, like Parcheesi and Sorry!, is based on India’s pachisi
AAcross 40:	An old word for drinking vessels; or, basins/fonts for holy water
AAcross 42:	Reynard, tod or vixen with a ruddy or rufescent coat, Vulpes vulpes	RED FOX
AAcross 43:	A religious ceremony; a good turn; employment; a public utility; a set of crockery for a particular meal; the order of dishes; or, an act of assisting a customer or waiting on a diner
AAcross 46:	Knobbly root vegetable with an earthy aniseed-like flavour, often served julienned with rémoulade
AAcross 48:	From “wall”, a painting, such as a fresco, executed on said partition
AAcross 49:	Word for a little ditch originally, later a small muddy pool of rainwater; a wet mixture of clay and sand; or, a ripple, left by the blade of an oar
AAcross 50:	A book or collection of financial accounts; a horizontal scaffolding pole; a slab; or, a sinker for fishing
AAcross 52:	A brioche-, bun- or teacake-like delicacy from Bath, whose name is said by some to derive from its original baker and others from “soleil et lune”, French for “sun and moon”	SALLY LUNN
AAcross 53:	Word, based on a hunting term for a detour, turn or other trick made by the quarry to escape the hounds, for a cunning artifice or stratagem
AAcross 54:	A metal can historically likened to a Model T Ford, hence said can’s synonymity with old decrepit cars
AAcross 55:	Name, thought to be from French for “fire” or from the Cantonese dish “fun”, for a Vietnamese noodle soup
AAcross 56:	Mystical word used as a charm in incantations for healing originally, later in fun by conjurers or magicians when performing tricks
DDown 1:	Hens’ shelly ova, whose oviform or ovate shapes are reflected in those of certain varieties of white aubergines and in architectural ovoli
DDown 2:	Breed or stock; a trait; a melody; deformation of a material from stress in physics; an intense effort; or, a sprain incurred as a result of said wrench
DDown 3:	A word for the rounded or knobbly part of a knee or elbow originally, later for a joint of a finger
DDown 4:	A word for acrobats such as equilibrists or funambulists, performing feats of equilibration; or, the hindwings or halteres of flies
DDown 5:	Botanical barriers or boundaries of beech, blackthorn, box, bramble and other such bushes in the bocage
DDown 6:	From the practice of highlighting festivals and saints’ feasts in scarlet on ecclesiastical calendars, a term for memorably happy, noteworthy or significant occasions	RED-LETTER DAYS
DDown 7:	Biscuit dough-topped baked fruit puddings, thought by some to be named for being thrown together; shoemakers, snabs, snobs or sutors; iced sherry cocktails; or, nonsense
DDown 8:	Ancient Greek for a conflict, contest or struggle between protagonists in drama, games, tragedy etc
DDown 9:	The genus of the sacred lotus
DDown 12:	From “butter, fat, grease, ointment”, a smudge, splodge, splotch or streak of such substance; or, a slur or slanderous attack
DDown 17:	Literally meaning “golden”, the official currency of Poland
DDown 20:	Short word for a stringed instrument crafted by Cremonese luthier Antonio, whose surname is synonymous with fine violin-making, musical excellence and quality
DDown 22:	From Latin for “light”, a word used to mean glowing, luminous or shining; intellectually bright; clear or easily understood; transparent; or, sane
DDown 24:	One of the digital ungues whose beautification treatment “manicure” literally means “hand care”
DDown 26:	Norse god of fishing, seas, ships, and wealth, said to cause favourable breezes to blow for Viking voyagers
DDown 27:	Mixer-like kitchen appliance with interchangeable attachments for blending, chopping or puréeing	FOOD PROCESSOR
DDown 29:	A nestling, small or young tawny or other nocturnal “bird of Minerva”
DDown 32:	A rank or row of animals, buildings, mountains, people etc; or, a stove
DDown 33:	An aeolian current that, along with breezy weather and draughts, is the dread of an anemophobe
DDown 35:	A course, flight path, road or way; or, any regularly travelled journey, hence a similar word for an unvarying or regular round or procedure
DDown 38:	A word for a bluish leaden colour that came to mean “furiously angry”
DDown 39:	A wholly or partially enclosed area open to the sky, such as an atrium, patio, quadrangle or square
DDown 41:	A saddle’s foot irons whose shapes are reflected in the body’s tiniest bones, called “stapes”
DDown 44:	Based on French for “heavenly”, a keyboard producing an ethereal bell- or glockenspiel-like tinkle, used as the sound of the Sugar Plum Fairy
DDown 45:	A fabric falbala, frill or furbelow
DDown 47:	From the Latin for “let him or her go out”, a word for a leave of absence from a boarding school, diocese, religious house or university
DDown 48:	Town in Aveyron, home to a 1‚125ft-high viaduct designed by Sir Norman Foster, which holds the world record for the tallest bridge	MILLAU
DDown 49:	Based on Latin for “bread”, a variety of thick bread soup or roux
DDown 51:	Firearms, such as the Big Bertha, brown Bess and Mons Meg types with female names; members of shooting-parties; or, biceps
DDown 53:	Crimson or rouge gem whose name has been adopted to describe similarly coloured things, such as blood, glass, port wine or the lips