Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 28th January 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 28th January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Illustrator of “toy books”, including Marigold Garden, Mother Goose and Under the Window, who was the daughter of an engraver and a milliner, and a friend of John Ruskin	GREENAWAY
AAcross 10:	From the Old English for “beauty” and Swedish for “complexion, skin”, a particular quality/tint of a colour, or an attribute that enables an observer to classify it as blue, red, yellow etc
AAcross 11:	From the Latin for “foot soldiers”, the most numerous pieces in a game of chess, such as those used in an attack move or formation named after grandmaster Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton Hall
AAcross 13:	Once distinguished in botanica-like shops as either freshly gathered or cut and dried, hence the phrase, fragrant plants such as lavender, mint, rosemary, sage or thyme
AAcross 14:	From the Latin meaning “echo”, sympathetic vibration in music or physics; plangency or sonority; or, by extension, something that evokes emotion or strikes a chord
AAcross 15:	An emblem or ideogram, such as a musical note, pictorial icon on a map key/legend or a letter representing a chemical element
AAcross 16:	Pieces of ivory, mother-of-pearl, pewter, precious metal, tortoiseshell, wood etc used in a form of marquetry-like boullework
AAcross 17:	Thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon for “fire” due to its hollow stems used to blow air on embers, the tree Sambucus, with berries/flowers used for cordial, jam, pressé and wine
AAcross 19:	A fast stagecoach; a familiar spirit; a fishing lure; a flap, such as a tent-door or zip cover; or, a dipteran whose figurative presence in ointment alludes to a small but irritating flaw
AAcross 20:	Prime minister whose love affair with Georgiana, the 5th Duke of Devonshire’s wife, is depicted in the historical film The Duchess
AAcross 21:	Said to have “known everything”, archbishop of Seville who compiled the vast compendium of knowledge Etymologies, covering subjects from canon law to cookery utensils	ISIDORE
AAcross 24:	A formal inspection of military or naval forces originally, later a critique of a book, film, play, restaurant etc; or, a publication containing said evaluation
AAcross 26:	A real or imaginary person for whom something is named; or, the name or title so derived
AAcross 29:	From the Greek for “star sailor”, a word for a space traveller
AAcross 31:	A stripe such as the heraldic bar-sinister; a lace or linen cavalier collar; a range of frequencies or wavelengths in a spectrum; a rock group; or, a gang of gorillas, men, outlaws or thieves
AAcross 33:	An ancient Greek or Roman colonnade, passage, portico or other outdoor element with a bench or seat as a place for debate or discussion
AAcross 35:	A cloth surface for an oil; the painting itself; sails/tents collectively; or, the material upon which embroidery or tapestry is worked
AAcross 36:	A sculpture representing the head and shoulders, such as any one of those by Joseph Nollekens adorning Belvoir Castle’s Regent’s Gallery
AAcross 37:	A pudding of bigarreaux, geans, morellos, oxhearts or other similar fruits baked in a crust-topped pastry shell; or, the fragrant purple-flowered garden heliotrope	CHERRY-PIE
AAcross 39:	Believed to have descended from a crustacean ancestor, a word for a hexapod, such as any one of those found fossilised in Devonian rocks
AAcross 41:	From the Greek for “fruit”, a female reproductive organ of a flower’s gynoecium or “women’s quarters”
AAcross 42:	Titles rolled at the end of a film in recognition of cast/crew; or, a list of acknowledgements in a book
AAcross 45:	Word for the fundus of something, such as a statue’s pedestal or a pillar’s foot, also used in its old-fashioned sense to mean “ignoble”
AAcross 47:	Short word for an animal doctor/surgeon such as Alf Wight, whose humorous memoirs are published under the name James Herriot
AAcross 48:	Name of eight kings of England, including the founder of Eton College, crowned at just eight months old
AAcross 49:	Flans from which coins are minted; dashes in place of obscene or taboo words; lottery tickets that fail to win prizes; or, dominoes, Scrabble tiles etc without pips or letters
AAcross 51:	A child’s old rake-like utensil for nudging food onto a spoon; a stick for propelling the squid in underwater hockey; a perambulator; or, an aircraft propeller behind an engine
AAcross 53:	Considered the inventor of the portrait medal, Italian painter whose surviving frescos are Annunciation and Saint George and the Princess	PISANELLO
AAcross 55:	Riding the eight-legged magical horse Sleipnir and with raven familiars Huginn and Muninn, a Norse god after whom Wednesday is named
AAcross 56:	A tree-lined path/promenade as a feature in a French formal garden
AAcross 57:	The sheltered side of a ship, opposite its weather/windward side; or, the author of Cider with Rosie
AAcross 58:	An expanse of natural scenery eyed in a single view; or, a painting/ picture representing such a vista
DDown 1:	A perforated device for keeping score in a game such as cribbage; a similar larger contrivance for display; or, another name for solitaire
DDown 2:	Drams; naval slang for the retractable tubes of submarines; or, forceful horse-like nasal exhalations expressing indignation/incredulity
DDown 3:	A swindler; a doughnut-like cruller; a party game of contortionism played on a mat; a rope-maker; a tornado; or, a person who dances the Watusi
DDown 4:	From the Greek for “dark blue”, one of the primary subtractive colours with magenta and yellow
DDown 5:	A mackerel or any small silvery fish with glittering scales; a polisher; or, slang for a rainbow, a black eye or a bright coin, such as a sovereign
DDown 6:	Plant known as “medieval aspirin” or “bachelor’s-buttons” with flowers used for potpourri and leaves used as a folk remedy for headaches
DDown 7:	An architectural architrave
DDown 8:	To test for witchcraft by immersion; a dizziness; a graceful glide; a spell of breaststroke, crawl, doggy-paddle etc; or, the flow of current affairs
DDown 9:	The figurative colour of one’s fingers when one is skilled in horticulture
DDown 12:	A beach or other waterside area, often frequented by wading birds
DDown 18:	From the Greek for “a way of life”, the food one habitually eats; or, a regime designed for weight loss
DDown 20:	A place for keeping ganders and their female counterparts; or, general silliness or anserine behaviour
DDown 22:	The prolongation of a musical note by means of electronics or the right pedal on a piano, for example
DDown 23:	Finger ornaments, such as the gold examples worn by Anglo-Saxons to indicate status/wealth
DDown 25:	Ancient Indonesian art or method of resist-dyeing a characteristic blurry- or feather-edged pattern into threads before being woven
DDown 27:	Represented by a white rose, any one of the rivals of the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses	YORKIST
DDown 28:	From the Greek for “onion”, a globular stem of a plant such as the aforesaid or the daffodil; or, an item in this shape, such as the rubber part of a pipette or bicycle horn
DDown 30:	A necklace of diamonds or other gems “flowing” or graduating in size towards a large central stone
DDown 32:	Novelist who immortalised his granddaughter Sophie in The BFG
DDown 33:	Word originally for a wandering or deviation from the right way, later a blunder, mistake or wrongdoing
DDown 34:	From the Latin for “Caesar”, a word for a Russian emperor; or, by extension, a despot or potentate
DDown 38:	A haricot served in a cassoulet, for example; or, a jelly sweet or coffee seed resembling such a legume
DDown 40:	Composer and polyphonic master whose life is the subject of an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies
DDown 41:	A ballista, onager, trebuchet or Y-shaped slingshot for hurling boulders or stones by means of potential and kinetic energy
DDown 43:	Any oblique line of same-colour squares along which a bishop or queen can move in chess; a line joining two non-adjacent vertices of a polygon; or, a slash/solidus
DDown 44:	Word, coined by a sea captain and thought to derive from the Greek for “wheel, coil of a snake”, for a system of winds spiralling inwards
DDown 46:	Meaning “without tail”, an order of croaking neckless amphibians comprising the frogs and toads
DDown 48:	A maker of stocking and tights
DDown 49:	A French peasant/workman’s smock originally, later a lady’s shirt
DDown 50:	An instrument such as a Gurkha’s kukri, a chipper’s blade or one of the cutlery items stored in a canteen
DDown 52:	A corona-like radiance around the sun or the moon; or, the gloriole or nimbus of an angel, saint etc in art
DDown 54:	A waterway sailed by feluccas