Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 25th March 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 25th March 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Pen name of an author, puzzle inventor and Oxford mathematics don who coined portmanteau words including bandersnatch, burble, chortle, frabjous, frumious, galumph, jabberwocky and mimsy
AAcross 10:	The brilliance, lustre and purity of a diamond, such as one in the first degree, considered flawless; a wavy sheen on moiré silk or taffeta; or, a liquid compound known in its solid or gaseous state as ice or steam
AAcross 11:	An occurrence associated with a single point in space-time, such as the high-energy example of a supernova; or, any one of the social occasions of the British season
AAcross 13:	A ringlet; an eddy; a ripple effect or “flame” in wood; an instance of sliding a granite or stone on ice; or, a weightlifting exercise performed with a barbell or a dumb-bell
AAcross 14:	Word, from “patron” in reference to said protector giving an example to be copied, for a model, template or a repeated decorative design
AAcross 15:	Name, derived from a Burmese port once famed for glazed jars used to export candied fruits, confections, preserves and spices, for a sugary almond paste used to coat cakes
AAcross 16:	Draught horses traditionally adorned with brasses and with manes plaited with colourful ribbons/flights; or, Anglo-Saxon administrative divisions, next above hundreds
AAcross 18:	Greek dawn goddess after whom Prince Albert named his favourite greyhound, as seen with a top hat in a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer
AAcross 19:	An alloy for which Sir Henry Bessemer developed a method of production at low cost; a sword; one of a corset’s “bones” ; a honing rod; or, figurative hardness or strength
AAcross 20:	Word for a strip of cloth originally, later a sheet of glass in a window; or, a block of typically six postage stamps bound to the margin of a booklet, sometimes tête-bêche
AAcross 21:	From a word meaning revolve or rotate, a spike on which fibres are twisted into yarn; or, a pin on which a bobbin or anything else turns
AAcross 24:	From the Latin for “horn”, a trumpet-like instrument made of said material originally, but later brass; or, a funnel-shaped pastry or wafer filled with crème pâtissière or ice cream
AAcross 26:	Exclamations meaning “to weapons!” originally, later a word for distress/alert signals; or, devices transmitting said warnings, such as bells, clocks, sirens or tocsins
AAcross 29:	From the Greek for “flower”, a floral design or ornament in classical architecture, typically alternating motifs resembling honeysuckle petals, lotus leaves and palmettes
AAcross 30:	A swift forward movement; a stampede; a sudden demand, burst of activity, flood/flow or euphoric thrill; or, a flock of pochards
AAcross 32:	Food crafted in caseiculture; or, a truckle or wheel of said fromage, complete with its rind
AAcross 34:	From the Greek for “grandfather” or “old man’s beard”, a parachute of fine feathery hairs on each seed of a dandelion clock or thistle to assist its dispersal by the wind
AAcross 36:	Word used to refer to any one of a crossword’s clues whose solutions run vertically in the grid
AAcross 37:	From the Italian meaning “to babble” or “chatter”, word for a fast-talking seller of quack remedies
AAcross 40:	Gems; or, by extension, the most valued people or things
AAcross 42:	Depicted in a drawing by John Sell Cotman, a parhelion on the solar halo as a result of diffraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere
AAcross 43:	Seabird said to draw blood from its own breast with its pouched beak to feed its young, thus a symbol of self-sacrifice and motherly love to the nation co-opted for Elizabeth I
AAcross 45:	Word, used in literature and in various British place names, for an ait, cay, eyot, holm, inch or skerry
AAcross 47:	A selection from which to choose; or, the full compass, gamut or scope of something, such as a musical instrument or a person’s abilities, knowledge, vision or voice
AAcross 49:	Often found in a country churchyard, a conifer with knot-free wood traditionally used to make the longbows of medieval archers
AAcross 50:	Chickens, hens or their calls; throws, hence dismissals; clamps holding bits in drills; or, cuts of beef
AAcross 52:	Painter of horses whose works can be seen at his former home, Castle House in Dedham, which his widow converted into a museum	MUNNINGS
AAcross 54:	French word for the coquelicot colour of the corn poppy; or, a scarlet-red pigment evocative of this
AAcross 55:	Zest of an orange or a lemon in its natural or candied state; or, a baker’s wooden shovel for sliding bread or pizza dough in or out of a hot oven
AAcross 56:	Irish composer whose opera The Bohemian Girl features the aria I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls	BALFE
AAcross 57:	From a word meaning “left, below”, the cardinal direction to one’s left when facing the rising of the star central to our solar system
AAcross 58:	Word for a public disturbance or commotion originally, later any strong feeling, as of anger, fear, joy etc
DDown 1:	From the Latin for “raisin, pip of grape”, a fleshy red cup around a seed of the tree described in 49 Across
DDown 2:	From the Latin for “body”, word for a collection of writings; or, the main part or substance of anything
DDown 3:	Attire or bedding collectively
DDown 4:	Point on a cricket bat, golf club or tennis racquet from which the cleanest shots are made; or, any place for obtaining optimal results	SWEET-SPOT
DDown 5:	Booths for street food; groups of plovers or saplings; open-air stages for brass bands; or, pedestals
DDown 6:	A paradiddle, rataplan or rub-a-dub-dub sound made by the rhythmic rapping of a membranophone
DDown 7:	Meaning “little earth” and thought to be an invention of William Gilbert, a globe-shaped magnet designed to simulate Earth’s magnetic fields
DDown 8:	In Persian mythology, any one of a race of beautiful fairylike creatures descended from fallen angels
DDown 9:	A jam or squash of people or things; a drink of fruit juice/purée; a pen for handling cattle; or, an infatuation
DDown 12:	With early senses including “retinue” and “dragging part of a robe”, a word for a line of travelling camels, coaches, people etc; or, a sequence of connected thoughts or things
DDown 17:	Type of cattle farm after which a buttermilk- or sour cream-based salad dressing derives its name
DDown 20:	A planetary or lunar aspect; a stage in a life cycle, mitosis or one’s psychological development; or, a morph or colour change in zoology
DDown 22:	The right to pasture pigs in a forest; the acorns, beechnuts and other mast upon which said swine feed; or, payment for this privilege
DDown 23:	Sugar-cubes; or, clods of mud
DDown 25:	From the Greek for “mind”, a philosophical term for reason or intellect; or, colloquially, one’s loaf
DDown 27:	From the Arabic for “buffoon”, a cosmetic once used by clowns or by gentlemen to darken their eyebrows and moustaches, later by ladies to colour or thicken their eyelashes
DDown 28:	A piscary or miniature lake
DDown 31:	German who escaped the Nazis and fled to Britain where he founded Gordonstoun and co-established the DofE Award and Outward Bound
DDown 32:	Surname of the pioneering husband and wife whose research on pitchblende led to their discovery of polonium and radium
DDown 33:	Any one of the cobs/pens subject to annual upping on the Thames
DDown 35:	A chessman; a coin; a collector’s item; a composition; or, a crumb
DDown 38:	From an Old French expression meaning “I commend you to God”, a word meaning “goodbye, farewell”
DDown 39:	Meaning “multiflora”, a clustering rose, such as a floribunda
DDown 41:	Breed of spaniel named for the style with which it flushes game
DDown 42:	A ballad; a jingly verse; a monotonous or chant-like up-and-down intonation; or, a convivial gathering of friends for crooning
DDown 44:	A flueologist; a libero; a mine detector; or, a device with a revolving brush for cleaning carpets
DDown 46:	A firework such as a figurative damp example alluding to something that fails to go off with a bang; a lampoon; or, a paltry individual
DDown 48:	From the Latin for “try thoroughly”, a buff, mavin, pundit or specialist
DDown 50:	A detachable entry form for a football pool or other competition; a ration card; or, a discount voucher
DDown 51:	Plantswoman who wrote Life in a Cottage Garden to accompany her television series of the same name
DDown 53:	Forename of the orphaned heroine of “not quite fourteen” in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop	NELL
DDown 55:	From the Latin for “penalty”, an ache, cramp or other bodily suffering; or, a French word for bread