Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 18th February 2023

There are 33 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 18th February 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist’s discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun
AAcross 11:	Secure grip with one’s pedes; the foundation of a column or a wall, thus the basis upon which something is founded; one’s standing in relation to others; a dance; or, plain lace
AAcross 12:	Once known as a coney and protected for hundreds of years by landowners who valued it for its meat, a plant-eating animal whose name has been altered to describe a dish of cheese-and-ale sauce on toast
AAcross 14:	An item traditionally fashioned on a last by a cordwainer; a U-shaped hoof protector forged on an anvil and regarded as a token of good luck; or, a ferrule on a sledge
AAcross 15:	A noise-making stone-wielding child originally, later a gally-bagger, hodmedod, mawkin, mommet, straw man, tattie-bogle or other effigy as a means to deter birds from crops
AAcross 16:	A group of words collectively forming a conceptual unit; a sequence of musical notes or dance steps, sometimes likened to a written sentence; or, in the Scots language, flowery, fussy talk about feelings
AAcross 17:	From the Latin for “murmur” and the Italian for “word”, a slogan such as that encapsulating a family’s beliefs on their coat of arms; a quotation prefacing a book or chapter; or, a joke, riddle or scrap of verse in a cracker
AAcross 18:	Petit pains; snacks consisting of pieces of pastry wound around sausage meat or julienned vegetables; or, throws of dice
AAcross 20:	Climbing over old garden walls and tree trunks, an evergreen with berries eaten by blackbirds, thrushes and wood pigeons and leaves stylised as “hedera” printer’s fleurons
AAcross 21:	Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a “beast of the field” or a “bird of the air”, later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout
AAcross 22:	An informal word for a walk; a continuous journey; an expanse of road, time, water etc; or, a muscle-extending reach of the arms or legs
AAcross 25:	A porifer such as a Venus’s flower basket; its skeleton as a shower puff; or, with allusion to either example’s absorbency, a drunkard or soak
AAcross 27:	US word for a helicopter; an almost stationary flight of a kestrel or of the aforementioned aircraft; or, a brooder for keeping chicks warm
AAcross 30:	Village in Hertfordshire, site of a Gothic Revival house that was the seat of the Lytton family, including writer Edward, for some 500 years	KNEBWORTH
AAcross 32:	Depicted by French horns in an orchestral fairy tale by Prokofiev, an animal from whose Latin appellation the lupin derives its name
AAcross 34:	Each of a series of sewn loops of thread, such as one in the “saddle” style, created only by hand
AAcross 36:	From the Latin for “summit”, word for the highest point, such as an astronomical zenith, crown of the head, geometric apex or peak
AAcross 37:	Word for a stage drama; a display of animals in courtship; or, dalliance, fun, gambling, recreation or sport
AAcross 38:	Signposted with a blue arrow or represented on an OS map with a green/pink long-dashed line, a path suitable for horses and their riders
AAcross 40:	A leister, pike, trident or other such pointed javelin; a blade of grass; a stem of asparagus; or, a reed
AAcross 42:	One-tenth of a Roman legion originally, later a band of warriors; a group with a shared characteristic; a companion; or, a follower
AAcross 43:	An aigrette, penna or other quill traditionally sold by a plumassier; or, anything light, petty or trifling
AAcross 46:	Earth moulded into bricks, jars, pipes, pottery, tiles and, historically, tablets bearing cuneiform script
AAcross 48:	A star some 93 million miles away whose shadow, cast by means of a gnomon, is traditionally used to tell the time by earthlings
AAcross 49:	A seat in a boat or parliament; a platform for plants in a greenhouse or for dogs at a show; a pew or settle; a table in a laboratory, studio or workshop; or, judges collectively
AAcross 50:	Anglo-Saxon word for curly/frizzy hair originally, later a wafer of potato deep-fried as a snack; or, a pudding of fruit with a crumble-like topping
AAcross 52:	From the Latin for “great”, a bottle of wine of twice the standard size; or, with “bonum”, a large variety of apple, plum or potato
AAcross 54:	Structure with a specific task within a cell, such as a mitochondrion producing chemical energy, a nucleus storing genetic information or a ribosome assembling proteins
AAcross 56:	Forename of the poet-detective character Dalgleish, created by Baroness James of Holland Park
AAcross 57:	A cabinetmaker’s polishing pad; a stationery item for erasing pencillings; a coarse file; a match of three games in bridge or whist; or, caoutchouc
AAcross 58:	A summary; a reduction in activity, number, size etc; or, a Jamaican stew of seafood cooked in coconut milk
AAcross 58:	A summary; a reduction in activity, number, size etc; or, a Jamaican stew of seafood cooked in coconut milk
AAcross 59:	A fugitive, messenger or smuggler; a narrow carpet/rug; a jogger; a skate blade; a drawer slide; or, a stolon
DDown 1:	From the Old English for “embrace”, the reach of open arms originally, later a measure equal to six feet
DDown 2:	From an Italian word for “cool”, an intonaco wall painting, often reproduced from a cartoon
DDown 3:	From the Old French for “ado” or “to do”, a word for business dealings, personal matters, public concerns, minor battles or romantic liaisons
DDown 4:	An aperture, such as an animal’s burrow, a cup in a green for a golf ball, a needle’s eye or a potato in a sock
DDown 5:	Latin word for a mare’s tail cloud
DDown 6:	Albumen whipped into peaks when making a meringue or soufflé	EGG WHITE
DDown 7:	A set of three hinged paintings or carvings, typically a central panel flanked by folding shutters/wings
DDown 8:	From the Persian for “pavilions”, a word for bandstands, news-stands, telephone boxes or small shops
DDown 10:	Word for a surgery or operating room due to early examples arranged with tiered seats like auditoriums
DDown 13:	A block of chocolate, gold or soap; a measure in music; a counter in a café/pub; a shoal; or, a court of law
DDown 19:	Coils of rope, cable etc needed to go around objects, hence circuits of racetracks; an old word for folds of garments; stages of journeys; or, upper parts of thighs when seated
DDown 21:	From an Old English word for “handmade” or “of a craftsman”, the name of iridescent ornamental art glass developed by Tiffany
DDown 23:	Underground passages, such as those dug by moles or voles
DDown 24:	Pastry whose name, derived from the French for “cabbage”, refers to its shape when baked into gougères, profiteroles and other such puffs
DDown 26:	Cosy corner in a room for reading, for example; or, a secluded retreat
DDown 28:	French word for publicity or for the art by which notoriety is secured
DDown 29:	From the late Latin for “stuff with tow or oakum”, a word used to mean block, plug or bring to a halt
DDown 31:	Meaning “place for bottles”, a storeroom for food, liquor and wine; or, a university’s tuck shop
DDown 33:	Word for a pronged agricultural tool originally, later a tined item of cutlery with which to hold food
DDown 34:	A flock of bitterns, cranes or herons; or, a grass after which a species of warbler is named
DDown 35:	Spa city whose speciality buns are said to have been a favourite of former resident Jane Austen
DDown 39:	Little bird found throughout the UK including St Kilda, where it has formed a separate subspecies
DDown 41:	Name of a fragrant herb whose Latin origin, “dew of the sea”, refers to its leaves with a misty cast
DDown 42:	Outlines of natural features such as hills; bodily silhouettes; or, isopleths on weather maps
DDown 44:	A traditional Welsh dresser
DDown 45:	A formation of ancient Greek warriors with interlocking shields; or, by extension, a dense body of soldiers; a crowd; a bone of a finger or toe; or, a bundle of stamens
DDown 47:	An old distance of three miles or an hour’s walk; an alliance of clubs or sports teams; or, a class or group
DDown 49:	In Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, Bilbo and Frodo’s green-doored smial in Hobbiton	BAG END
DDown 50:	A native British fruit whose figurative placement on the top of a cake alludes to a finishing touch to an already excellent situation
DDown 51:	Any one of the celestial bodies observed by early Greek astronomers as “wandering” in contrast to the seeming “fixed stars”
DDown 53:	A bird’s bill; or, a point of a fountain pen, suggestive of such a beak
DDown 55:	Very bright version of a colour, reminiscent of a sign illuminated with a gas of the same name