Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 7th January 2023

There are 33 across clues and 33 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 7th January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Scholar who dedicated his treatise Toxophilus to Henry VIII and, in return, was rewarded by said king with a royal pension and further honour of being assigned tutor to Prince Edward and Princess Elizabeth	ASCHAM
AAcross 12:	From the Old French meaning “to sing with trills and quavers”, an oscine bird such as a blackcap, chiffchaff or whitethroat; or, by extension, any songster or vocalist with a similar modulated or vibrato call or voice
AAcross 13:	A coopered vessel with wooden staves and metal hoops; a horse’s belly; a feather’s quill; a fountain pen’s tubular body; or, a great deal of something, such as fun or laughs
AAcross 14:	From a Latin word originally used to denote a tax or rent, a tract of land for the cultivation of crops or rearing of livestock, including its associated barns and homestead
AAcross 15:	Trinkets or souvenirs retained as mementoes of their givers; or, the often highly decorative annual literary anthologies of the 19th century known as gift-books
AAcross 16:	Historically, a person employed to prove the innocuousness of food by eating it before serving it to their master or mistress; or, a little cup for a person who is sampling wine
AAcross 17:	From the Latin for “silver coin”, word originally for 1/12 of a French sou, later a unit of the fineness of fibres or yarns, especially when woven into stockings, tights and other hosiery
AAcross 18:	Smoothing devices historically heated in a fire or filled with hot coals; golf clubs, harpoons, pistols, shackles or stirrups; or, meteorites containing a high proportion of ferric metal
AAcross 20:	A hot beverage synonymous with sympathy and traditionally served as part of a light afternoon meal with little cakes, sandwiches or scones
AAcross 21:	From a name given by the Greeks and Romans to inhabitants of distant lands, word for cloth/fibre produced in sericulture; or, a garment, such as a KC’s gown, made from this
AAcross 22:	Author of a notable dictionary with some 40,000 entries including “excise: a hateful tax”, “lexicographer: a harmless drudge”, “slubberdegullion: a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch” and “twittlewattle: a vile word”
AAcross 25:	Metallic sound of bells or coins; a tambourine zill; a catchy rhythmic slogan or tune; or, a translucent shiny capiz shell used for jewellery
AAcross 27:	Derived from a French word that is also the source of “etiquette”, a card or slip, such as a travel pass
AAcross 30:	From the Latin for “sun”, either the shortest day of the year or its longest, when said star reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon
AAcross 32:	Crystalline substance such as fleur de sel, a pink Himalayan variety or that harvested from the shores of Maldon or the sea
AAcross 34:	Old English word for tall slender stems or blades of grass that came to mean long tapering objects, such as the tops of church steeples
AAcross 36:	Aromatic spice derived from dried berries associated with low rent and ubiquitously paired with the seasoning described in 32 Across
AAcross 37:	A recurrent beat or sound of a clock or watch
AAcross 38:	A glow of the skin, indicative of health or happiness; or, a measure of light in an area
AAcross 40:	Wodehouse’s monocled Old Etonian Drones Club member with a silent letter in his name	PSMITH
AAcross 42:	An olivet, toggle or other fastener measured in lignes; the cap of an unexpanded mushroom; a small disc of chocolate; or, a knob at the end of a foil or one for winding a watch
AAcross 42:	An olivet, toggle or other fastener measured in lignes; the cap of an unexpanded mushroom; a small disc of chocolate; or, a knob at the end of a foil or one for winding a watch
AAcross 43:	Three-line stanzas in prosody
AAcross 46:	From the Old Norse for “capture, grasp”, word originally for booty or spoils, later a large sharp tooth of a dog, venomous snake or wolf
AAcross 48:	An acorn, conker, filbert or other such indehiscent fruit; a hard gingery biscuit; a lump of coal; one’s head; a sky goddess; or, a young blood
AAcross 49:	A goddess of blossoming plants and spring whose name was given to plant life collectively and a type of book illustrating said botany
AAcross 50:	Silvery post-parr-stage salmon during their migration from fresh water to the saline sea for the first time
AAcross 52:	A pet form of a generic name for a lad, ordinary man or underling that came to mean a mounted courier, horse-dealer and later an equestrian “pilot” such as a steeplechaser
AAcross 54:	Word for a handicrafter who creates decorative textiles and other pieces by means of interlocking loops of yarn with an elongated hook
AAcross 56:	Slang for a brooch, leg or tiepin; a moveable object for use on stage; or, from the Middle Dutch for “support for vines”, a weight-bearing strut/pole
AAcross 57:	Meaning “ring”, a closed curve resembling such; the shape of a big top’s arena; a planet’s orbit; a figure in magic; or, a parallel of latitude
AAcross 58:	Contest in which cooks/pâtissiers prepare bread or cakes for judging	BAKEOFF
AAcross 59:	Geochronologic units between periods and ages; particular points in history or in a person’s life; or, the notable events marking these
DDown 1:	Based on the Latin for “out of one’s cloak”, word, alluding to the idea of leaving a pursuer clutching just one’s coat, for an act of breaking free
DDown 2:	From the Latin for “battlefield”, a fighter or gladiator originally, later any successful combatant or victor
DDown 3:	A type of “puffer” for calming hive hymenopterans; or, a person who cures charcuterie, cheese, salmon etc by means of vapours rising from burning hickory, oak or other wood
DDown 4:	Word for a bonbon, candy or one’s darling or dearest; or, a cross between a pomelo and a white grapefruit
DDown 5:	Sleeves; octopus tentacles; or, sides of chairs supporting human forelimbs of the same name
DDown 6:	Tiny fragments of something such as almond kernels, croissant pastry, dried paint, fish food or snow
DDown 7:	Old word for a young working-class Frenchwoman that refers to said girl’s characteristic grey dress fabric; or, the mushroom Amanita vaginata
DDown 8:	A summary of an article, book, speech or other piece of writing
DDown 9:	Goddess whose name is given poetically to the rainbow; a coloured part of the eye; a purple or yellow “fleur-de-lis”; or, a rainbow quartz
DDown 10:	Derived from a Roman agriculture goddess, word for barley, oats, wheat and other food grains collectively
DDown 19:	From the Spanish for “stew” and Latin for “pot”, a spicy hotchpotch; by extension, a medley, miscellany or potpourri; or, a vaudeville
DDown 21:	Meaning “to cut”, a part or piece, such as a chapter of a book, segment of an orange or subdivision of a newspaper, orchestra or platoon
DDown 23:	Pearl-forming molluscs or “huîtres”, referred to by Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor
DDown 24:	From the Greek for “water snake”, an aquatic rudder-tailed animal
DDown 26:	Paraphernalia for camping, fishing, sport etc; one’s toggery; or, a cogwheel that meshes with other cogs to transmit torque
DDown 28:	Any one of the 118 substances arranged in order of their atomic numbers on the periodic table
DDown 29:	A word for a hare or its “bun”
DDown 31:	Green plover or peewit whose Latin name Vanellus, meaning “little fan”, refers to its sound in flight
DDown 33:	A post-freeze spell of ice- and snow-melting warmer weather; or, by extension, an increase in cordiality
DDown 34:	Word used to mean brightness, dash, a fancy or liking, fine weather, lustre, a party or an act of polishing
DDown 35:	Word for an old tax that is used in an expression that means “free from injury, penalty or punishment”
DDown 39:	From the Portuguese meaning “simpleton”, a flightless bird hunted to extinction, so named for its apparent lack of fear of human beings
DDown 41:	An apian that produces a sweet substance with a pollen content studied in melissopalynology	HONEY BEE
DDown 42:	A block or “bomb” of fragrant substances fizzed in a tub of water prior to performing one’s ablutions
DDown 44:	Author of the Just William tales	CROMPTON
DDown 45:	Term meaning to reject; to release a boat, hawk or hound; or, to finish a final row of stitches and remove from a knitting needle	CAST OFF
DDown 47:	Greek god of beauty whose name was given to a rare blue butterfly
DDown 49:	Attire such as girls’ dresses, monks’ habits, sailors’ jerseys or shepherds’ linen overgarments
DDown 50:	A cycle/set of banknotes, books, coins, games, stamps, television dramas or other related things
DDown 51:	Weapons, spoils etc of a defeated army as a war prize originally, later a cup, plate or shield as an award
DDown 53:	A thrill; a forceful boot or punt with one’s foot; or, a spurt of speed
DDown 55:	A car/carriage’s folding roof; a cobra’s expanding neck part; a hawk’s hat-like cover; or, a monk’s cowl
DDown 55:	A car/carriage’s folding roof; a cobra’s expanding neck part; a hawk’s hat-like cover; or, a monk’s cowl