Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 14th January 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 14th January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Nickname of Jan van Kessel’s grandfather Jan Brueghel, a Flemish artist noted for his lavish paintings of flowers, brilliantly coloured woodland scenes and rendering of textiles, hence his sobriquet
AAcross 12:	Informal word for Indian-derived nightclothes comprising loose-fitting trousers and a shirt; knick-knacks, oddities or peculiarities; a fit of nervousness; or, delirium tremens
AAcross 13:	From the Dutch meaning “kitten”, a word for a fluffy ament of a willow tree or an inflorescence such as a “lamb’s-tail” of a hazel or a “devil’s finger” of a black poplar
AAcross 14:	Originally meaning “cornerstone” or “wedge”, word for any one of various minted numismatic discs, such as a bob, copper, crown, farthing, shilling, sixpence or sovereign
AAcross 15:	A non-fuzzy peach of the plum tree genus Prunus, with the aforesaid fruits plus the apricot, bullace, cherry, damson and others
AAcross 16:	A stratum; one of the thicknesses of ingredients forming a lasagne, sandwich, tian or Victoria sponge, for example; a hen kept for her eggs; or, a garment worn over/under others
AAcross 17:	Modified leaves or corolla segments forming the “bells” of campanulas, foxgloves, heather or wild hyacinths, the “falls” of irises or the “trumpets” of bindweed etc
AAcross 18:	From the Greek meaning “to smell”, a poisonous allotrope of oxygen, once believed to have a tonic effect and exist in fresh seaside air
AAcross 20:	Name, thought to be influenced by the Latin for “insect that shuns the light”, of a flying mouse-like mammal that navigates the dark by means of ultrasonic echolocation
AAcross 21:	Colour named after the dianthus, a flower used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet to symbolise the epitome or pinnacle of perfection
AAcross 22:	From an ancient root meaning “to love” and first recorded in the Old English poem Beowulf, one’s allies, chums, comrades or privados
AAcross 25:	From the Old English for “trick”, a word with early meanings including clever, crafty, cunning, later attractive, chocolate-box, dainty, delicately beautiful, fine or twee
AAcross 27:	A bibliophagist or bookworm; or, a member of a particular library
AAcross 30:	Name, derived from its appearance to the ancient Greeks and Romans as a hazy lacteal band across the sky, for the vast the galaxy containing our solar system	MILKY WAY
AAcross 32:	Author whose novel, set in the fictional Green Man coaching inn, was adapted into a television miniseries starring Albert Finney
AAcross 34:	An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person
AAcross 36:	A pomaceous orchard fruit pressed for cider, traditionally by means of horse-powered mill
AAcross 37:	Family of Italian rulers including Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara, patron of the arts for whom Bellini painted The Feast of the Gods and Titian created Bacchus and Ariadne	ESTE
AAcross 38:	Shallow jingle-less drums; circular embroidery frames resembling said instruments; flexible sliding doors of cabinets or desks; or, vestibules in church porches
AAcross 40:	Narrow lengths of leather or cloth for binding hampers, steadying passengers on buses/trains or holding up brassières, for example
AAcross 42:	From the Dutch for “little cake”, a sweet biscuit; a plain Scottish bun; or, a person of a particular type, such as smart or tough, e.g.
AAcross 43:	Writer of aphorisms, maxims or pithy sayings embodying truths
AAcross 46:	A fast-running form-dwelling leporid animal grazing mainly at twilight and said to be captivated by the moon; or, a player pursued by “hounds” in a paper chase
AAcross 48:	A quick bath or swim; a candle made by repeatedly immersing a wick in tallow/wax; a momentary loss of altitude during flight; or, a trough into which sheep are plunged
AAcross 49:	Word for praise, renown, splendour, triumph or worship; a glow around the Brocken spectre or the moon; or, a luminous halo/nimbus
AAcross 50:	A cover such as a bed’s tester, a cockpit’s transparent enclosure, a forest’s collective tree crowns or a parachute’s overhead fabric dome
AAcross 52:	Biographer born at Hatfield House in 1902, whose spymaster ancestor, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot	CECIL
AAcross 54:	From the Old French literally meaning “one who breaks bread with another”, a fellow/person with whom one frequently associates
AAcross 56:	Byname of John II, the French king also known as Jean le Bon
AAcross 57:	From the Latin for “evening” and root of the word “west”, the name given to Venus at sunset
AAcross 58:	Ornamental designs impressed on bookbindings and other leather articles by means of a set of heated instruments of the same name
AAcross 59:	A mixture of red and yellow, complementary of blue
DDown 1:	Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat
DDown 2:	Heatproof casseroles, dishes, marmites, ramekins etc, in which food can be both cooked and served
DDown 3:	Cherry pits; gems; or, pebbles
DDown 4:	One who dispossesses another of his or her land; or, a word denoting a seat enabling a pilot’s swift egress from an aircraft in an emergency
DDown 5:	Preferred forename of Amy Lyon, a blacksmith’s daughter who became Lady Hamilton, lover of Lord Nelson and muse of George Romney
DDown 6:	Meaning “poetic medley”, the art of ridiculing through storytelling, defined by Dr Johnson as “a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured”
DDown 7:	A gathering of pupils, shareholders, UN leaders or worshippers; a military signal by drumbeat or bugle call; or, an at-home, ball or reception
DDown 8:	One who casts bronze from a ceramic investment in the “cire perdue” or “lost wax” method; or, a carver of marble or wood
DDown 9:	A guy-rope, tent pole or other brace; a sojourn; a curb or restraint; or, a stiffening strip in a corset
DDown 10:	A lemon-like fruit of a tree of the same name; said fruit’s yellowy-green colour; or, its peel when candied
DDown 19:	Astronomer who proposed what is now the generally accepted model for the origin of comets
DDown 21:	Tableland; a state of levelling-off following a period of progress; an ornamental plaque, salver or tray; or, a lady’s flat-topped hat
DDown 23:	Last piece of cloth on a bolt, sold for crafts, cushions, patchwork etc
DDown 24:	Creator of a Stradivarius-playing pipe-smoking detective character residing at 221b Baker Street	DOYLE
DDown 26:	The fourth dimension; a concept studied or measured in horology; a pub’s 20-minute drinking-up period; rhythm; or, the heyday of one’s life
DDown 28:	Reports or articles in the media uncovering crimes or scandals
DDown 29:	The physiognomy, such as that of Helen of Troy, said by dramatist Christopher Marlowe to have “launched a thousand ships”
DDown 31:	French polymath who came close to postulating the concept of the black hole with what he called corps obscur, or “dark body”
DDown 33:	A stamped piece of wax completing a letter prior to the use of the handwritten signature; or, a pinniped with pups for young
DDown 34:	A house or hut built from logs
DDown 35:	Fragrant attar of damask roses
DDown 39:	From the Italian for “shore”, word for an alfresco swimming-pool
DDown 41:	The craft, shop or trade of a maker of equestrian seats and bridles; or, said tack collectively
DDown 42:	Maximum amount something may absorb, contain or hold; or, one’s mental ability or power to learn
DDown 44:	Cipher-like motif of interwoven initials embroidered on clothing or printed on bookplates/stationery
DDown 45:	From the Greek for “pan-pipes”, a genus of lilacs with stems once used as shepherds’ pipes
DDown 47:	A toxophilite; a fictional family from Ambridge; or, with definite article, the zodiac sign Sagittarius
DDown 49:	A victory in the game formerly called tables; patter of a pickpocket’s accomplice to distract a victim; ham for cooking; or, nonsense
DDown 50:	A great gun, such as a bombard, for blasting a castle wall; or, the crowning metal loop of an old bell
DDown 51:	A tiller; a joiner’s plane; a yoga pose; or, with “the”, Charles’s Wain
DDown 53:	Gold or silver sports trophies; or, vessels set on saucers for tea
DDown 55:	An imaginary line about which a body, such as Earth, rotates