Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 20th May 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 20th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Sugary swirls of enriched fruited spiced dough, originally baked in a London shop that counted royalty including George III and Queen Charlotte among its patrons	CHELSEA BUNS
AAcross 10:	From the Latin for “water”, word for a hydrophyte such as duckweed, frogbit, hornwort, marsh marigold, water soldier, yellow flag iris or any other example of a plant living in or near a pond, river, stream etc
AAcross 12:	One side of a leaf of a book, diary, newspaper etc; the printed/written matter it bears; one such sheet as a unit; or, a chapter, episode, event or whatever that may be envisaged as material to fill said folio
AAcross 13:	Scallops served in their shells; little shell-like dishes or pastry cases when used to serve said food; pats of butter; or, bell-shaped hand guards of épées, foils or small swords
AAcross 14:	Principal family in H E Bates’s novel whose title cites a Shakespeare sonnet: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”	LARKIN
AAcross 15:	Old dialect or Scots word for a cottage parlour; a buttery, larder, pantry or other storeroom for victuals and domestic equipment; or, a monetary allowance
AAcross 17:	From the Latin for “counters for calculation” or “brass/copper money”, a division of geochronological or chronological time; a starting point of a new age; or, an important date
AAcross 18:	Italian word for “dry”, used to refer to a technique of mural painting on dried lime plaster as opposed to fresh or “fresco”; or, dry wine
AAcross 19:	Spinning toys such as dreidels, teetotums or whirligigs; carrot greens; crown caps for beer bottles; crests, summits or tufts; or, henleys, jerseys, tees or other upper garments
AAcross 20:	From a word for “blue”, the cerulean-coloured mineral chessylite occurring in malachite, used as a pigment since Roman times
AAcross 23:	A dark grey rain-cloud; an artistic representation of an aureole, gloriole, halo or luminous mist encircling an angel, deity or saint; or, any surrounding colour or light
AAcross 25:	From the French for “shade” and the Latin for “cloud”, a subtle degree of difference in a colour, expression, meaning, sound, tone etc
AAcross 28:	Episcopal office or cathedra of a bishop; or, a place within said prelate’s diocese where a cathedral stands
AAcross 29:	From the Greek for “image”, a devotional painting of a holy figure; or, by extension, a celebrity, pop star, sex symbol, sporting hero or other culturally venerated person
AAcross 30:	From the Latin meaning “to weave”, the collective “woven” words in a book, poem or other penned/printed work; or, an SMS
AAcross 32:	From the Old French for “peeping chick” or “young cheeping bird”, a culver or “cushie-doo”, formerly employed to deliver/fly messages
AAcross 34:	A Jack tar, old salt, pirate or sailor; a white rainbow as seen by a mariner; an antiquated word for a shark or a seal; or, a heraldic beast in the form of a talbot with a beaver’s tail	SEA DOG
AAcross 36:	From a word for a bag or wallet, the postal system; or, the letters and parcels thus collected or delivered
AAcross 37:	A supercilium; the forehead; a hill’s summit; a ship’s gangway; or, one’s aspect or countenance
AAcross 38:	Sodden soil with some 30 names in Sussex, including gawm, gubber, pug, slob, slub and stodge
AAcross 40:	Word for doorkeepers originally, later cinema, theatre or wedding attendants, guiding guests to seats
AAcross 42:	Tracts of lowland carpeted with purple-flowered ling in the summer; or, satyrid butterflies in a subfamily with gatekeepers, marbled whites, ringlets, Scotch arguses, speckled woods and other browns
AAcross 43:	Men or women of letters; scribes; wordsmiths; painters of lettering for shop signs; or, sellers of options
AAcross 45:	From the Latin for “deeds done”, word for exploits or feats; divisions of ballets, dramas, operas or plays; set performances; or, pretences
AAcross 47:	From the Latin for “bubbles”, globe-like objects such as the biased woods rolled on a crown green
AAcross 49:	A helpful or practical hint; a race prediction; a pourboire; a nib; the end of a finger; a leafbud of a tea plant; a rubbish heap; or, a figurative pigsty
AAcross 50:	Anatomical “red lane” containing a windpipe; an entity resembling said gullet in function or shape, such as a bottleneck, chimney, entrance/exit or other narrow passage; or, the voice
AAcross 52:	Handle for operating the bed of a hand printing-press; or, the card game “rams”, related to loo and nap
AAcross 54:	A mass of hexagonal cells built by bees to store their “mel” and pollen; a bewildering maze of caves or rooms etc resembling this; or, the confection cinder toffee aka hokey-pokey
AAcross 55:	The “Harp” constellation home to the Double Double star and Vega
AAcross 56:	A ferroequinologist, twitcher or other individual who makes a hobby out of observing; or, a talent scout
AAcross 57:	The scientific study of birds
DDown 1:	A heraldic charge/field when said to be seeded or powdered with bezants, fleurs-de-lis, gouttes or tear drops, stars or other bearings
DDown 2:	From the Greek for “soul, breath” or “butterfly”, the mind, spirit or “self”
DDown 3:	A large or sumptuous tent, such as any one of those pitched at the Tudor festival and “glamping” event known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold
DDown 4:	Anthony Hope’s imaginary kingdom synonymous with places of adventure, courtly intrigue and high romance
DDown 5:	Hymns accompanied by harps; or, sacred songs of David in the Old Testament, sung antiphonally
DDown 6:	Clumps or tufts of grass or rushes; church kneelers; or, floor cushions, footstools, ottomans or pouffes
DDown 7:	Any one of the bright lunar phases ascribed a name according to a season or an event observed in nature	FULL MOON
DDown 8:	A commotion; a faint movement or sensation; a slang word for jail; or, an instance of mixing cake batter, a cup of tea, vegetables in a wok etc
DDown 9:	Short word for a victor or “fighting man”; a gnash by a horse on its bit; or, an Irish dish similar to colcannon
DDown 11:	A kink/wave in hair or wool fibres; a pinch in the edge of a pie’s pastry crust; or, a connector for a length of beading thread, cable or wire
DDown 16:	A fascicle of axons synonymous with audacity, bravery or courage
DDown 19:	Onomatopoeia for the vibrating sound of a taut bow/guitar string; local intonation; or, a smack of flavour
DDown 21:	Utensils for obtaining fine strands of peel from citrus fruits
DDown 22:	Word for any inanimate object; a living creature; or, informally, a love affair, phobia or slight obsession
DDown 24:	Culinary name for the meat from cattle traditionally served with Yorkshire pudding; human flesh when muscular; or, a gripe or grievance
DDown 26:	A group or “glaring” of cats
DDown 27:	Weaving device such as Edmund Cartwright’s mechanised version; or, a mirage-like vision of something as seen from afar through the murk
DDown 31:	Greensward synonymous with horse racing or personal territory; steak when served with seafood, or “surf”, in a meal; or, peat as fuel
DDown 32:	The rate of doing work; electrical energy; or, according to Lord Acton, authority or control that “corrupts”
DDown 33:	A two-horse Roman chariot; or, Italian pre-ferment for ciabatta etc
DDown 35:	Word meaning to accoutre or clothe, to decorate a ship with flags, to toss salad in vinaigrette, to prepare poultry/crab or to tie an artificial fly
DDown 38:	Word originally for a person who imparted motion, later a device such as the AC induction type developed by Nikola Tesla; or, informally, a car
DDown 39:	From the French for “gleam like a cat’s eye”, word for a gem, such as the one named after said oculus, with a changeable iridescent lustre
DDown 41:	Citizens in a monarchy; musical themes; matters of discourse, study, thought etc; or, experimentees known colloquially as guinea pigs
DDown 42:	Hedgerow shrub with white blossoms or “knots of may” recalled in the old rhyme Nuts in May
DDown 44:	Young shoots of mung/soybeans; miniature cabbages traditionally from Brussels; descendants; or, scions
DDown 46:	A symbol of multiplication or addition; or, a basic jab in boxing
DDown 48:	An arc-en-ciel-like display of prismatic colours produced when natural rays shine through the mist or spray of a fountain or waterfall
DDown 50:	Word, introduced into English by Captain Cook, for social bans or prohibitions; or, unmentionables
DDown 51:	A striking display; rich clothing; a matrix; or, a group of hedgehogs
DDown 53:	“Ninth hour” or midday when the “daystar” is closest to its zenith; or, by extension, the highest point
DDown 55:	A glance/gaze; or, a fashion such as the “new” style of Christian Dior