Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 3rd June 2023

There are 32 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 3rd June 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Mythical medieval land of plenty, idleness and luxury described as having dwellings of cake and barley sugar, rivers of milk or wine, roasted geese roaming pastry-paved streets and skies raining cheese
AAcross 10:	A “hand-winged” chiropteran, such as Nathusius’ pipistrelle which migrates some 1,500 miles despite its diminutive 5-6 cm size; or, a paddle for playing Ping-Pong
AAcross 11:	Thought to stem from an ancient root meaning “to hide” or “huddle”, a ménage suitable for human habitation, such as a cottage, grange, lodge, manor, rectory or a residential building for school boarders
AAcross 13:	Item whose metaphorical concealment up one’s sleeve pertains to a secret asset/plan kept in reserve until needed; a domino; a map; a meishi; or, a race programme
AAcross 14:	From the Latin for “olive”, an ingredient traditionally derived from said fruit; or, a flammable liquid whose figurative burning at midnight refers to reading or studying late
AAcross 15:	Dragonflies known in North America as meadowhawks or skimmers; tropical snakebirds; a name for archerfishes or perches; people or things that dash or flit; or, players of the game “arrows”
AAcross 16:	A posterior extremity, such as a bird’s train of feathers, a dog’s flag, a fish’s caudal fin, a fox’s brush, an otter’s rudder or a rabbit’s scut
AAcross 17:	An ensemble of singers; or, any simultaneous utterance, such as the collective songs and twitterings of birds at dawn or the chirpings of crickets/grasshoppers by night
AAcross 19:	Known in Celtic folklore as the Oak King of Summer, the feisty redbreast crowned as Britain’s national bird
AAcross 20:	Key to Gregor Mendel’s discovery of the basic principles of heredity or inheritance, quintessential cottage garden flowers with fragrant butterfly-shaped pastel-coloured blooms	SWEET PEA
AAcross 22:	A poet and entomologist noted for The Village whose Marsh Flowers became one of Benjamin Britten’s Five Flower Songs	CRABBE
AAcross 24:	A cask made by a cooper; a similar keg in miniature whose customary suspension from a St Bernard’s collar is attributed to a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer; or, a horse’s belly
AAcross 26:	From the French for “shoe” and related to the Italian for “ciabatta”, word for a French or Breton peasant’s wooden clog, from which a term for vandalism derives
AAcross 29:	Bramble-framboise cross that takes its name from the Scottish river upon whose banks said hand-harvested summer fruit originates
AAcross 30:	Word for a space occupied by artillery or wagons, hence a verb for “halt and leave a vehicle”; or, in other senses, an estate’s pleasure ground, a public garden or a playground
AAcross 32:	Bunches of twigs attached to broomsticks as sweepers or as witches’ means of magical flight
AAcross 34:	A bedcover; a feast laid on a table; the face-up appearance of a diamond; a double page; or, butter, jam, pâté or other soft tasty topping for bread
AAcross 36:	A steep-fronted wave or eagre; the calibre of a gun; an artesian water well; or, a tedious person or thing
AAcross 37:	From the French for “leading off”, a male performer or sportsman who makes his first appearance
AAcross 40:	A very thin biscuit served with ice cream; or a disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist
AAcross 42:	Broadsheets; collected diaries and letters; documents attesting one’s identity; sets of exam questions; or, scholarly contributions
AAcross 43:	A simulacrum such as a doll, guy, Jack Straw, puppet, scarecrow or statue; or, an impression of a king or queen’s head on a coin’s obverse
AAcross 45:	From the Greek for “goose foot”, a plant in the family that includes amaranth, beetroot, mangel-wurzel, quinoa, spinach and sugar beet
AAcross 47:	A celestial body such as Swift-Tuttle that led Giovanni Schiaparelli to discover in 1865 that said body was the source of the Perseids
AAcross 48:	With examples by Ravel, Stanford and Spohr, musical compositions for nine solo instruments
AAcross 50:	An archery bow made from a single piece of wood; one’s ego or being; or, an animal or plant of uniform colour, as opposed to variegated
AAcross 52:	A parvenu lacking social skills appropriate for their newly elevated position; or, a way of mounting a bar in gymnastics, also called a kip
AAcross 53:	From the Swedish for “to play”, a communal mating ground of black grouse, where blackcocks gather to display and joust for greyhens
AAcross 54:	A jag of an arrow or a fish-hook; a beard-like filament of a cyprinid; a harl or ramus of a feather’s vane; or, a pointed or wounding remark
AAcross 55:	Bulls, dogs, stallions or other male parents of domestic animals; or, fathers/forefathers generally
AAcross 56:	An anurous simian such as humans’ closest extant relative the bonobo, aka a pygmy chimpanzee
AAcross 57:	Royal Navy rank intermediate between captain and rear admiral; or, the president of a yacht club
DDown 1:	Cloud, rain, spray etc driven fast by the wind; a swift run/runner; or, in the Scots language, a state of nudity
DDown 2:	First mentioned by Fanny Burney’s musician father, Charles, wands of maestri for conducting orchestras
DDown 3:	Old word for dealers in the shelled objects gathered from hens’ nests
DDown 4:	Collected by arctophiles, any one of the soft toys depicted enjoying a picnic in an old song or in paintings by Molly Brett, for example	TEDDY BEAR
DDown 5:	Shakespearean king of fairy land whose fights with his queen, Titania, disrupt the seasons and weather	OBERON
DDown 6:	From the German for “sprinkle”, a crumbly topping for apple cakes, fruit pies, muffins or rich pastries
DDown 7:	Word for bundles of twigs for whipping food originally, later the vibrissae of felines, mice and other animals; hairs of beards/moustaches; or, by extension, hair’s-breadths
DDown 8:	A blast of wind; a rush of smoke; a burst of passion; relish or zest; or, the sense or pleasure of tasting
DDown 9:	A sound of two colliding cymbals; a mismatch of colours; or, any incompatibility leading to conflict
DDown 12:	From the Latin for “chosen” or “select”, those considered superior among a group, society, sport etc
DDown 18:	Word uttered prior to “steady, go” as a command to initiate a race
DDown 21:	Hoses/pipes; bandeau-like tops; or, formerly, cylinders for Smarties
DDown 22:	Breeze forming ripples on the water’s surface; a cow-hitch- or lark’s-head-like knot; or, derived from a fable, the dupe/pawn of another	CAT'S-PAW
DDown 23:	A portmanteau word such as banoffee, blog, Bollywood, bromance or brunch; or, a mixture generally
DDown 25:	Miss —, author Dora Saint who wrote novels set in the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green
DDown 27:	Actor who played James Herriot in the original BBC series All Creatures Great and Small
DDown 28:	Word for undyed cloth originally, later a brownish-grey colour, hence an adjective meaning dingy or dull
DDown 31:	Part of a ship represented in the constellation Carina; a poetic word for a boat; or, a prow-shaped pair of petals of a papilionaceous plant
DDown 32:	A steep cliff; or, from “blindfold, hoodwink”, a ploy in poker or life
DDown 33:	From the Old English for “flower- head, ear of corn”, a cultivated plant on a large scale collectively; or, a season’s harvest, vintage or yield
DDown 35:	A noun for a child/urchin, Fotis hairstreak butterfly or a pixie; or, an adjective meaning dainty, delicate, fairylike, impish, petite or sprightly
DDown 38:	From the Latin for “belonging to another”, a word for a foreigner; or, a being from another planet
DDown 39:	A cut or “pestle” of poultry, named after a percussion mallet
DDown 41:	Relief decoration on malleable metal achieved by hammering from the reverse side in an ancient method often complimented with chasing
DDown 42:	A plinth-like base or “foot”; or, a figurative position of eminence
DDown 44:	Astronomer whose theory of Earth at the centre of the universe remained undisputed for some 1,400 years until Nicolaus Copernicus’s model in 1543
DDown 46:	Parts of the feet; bases of masts; or, antagonists in wrestling
DDown 47:	From the Latin for “clear”, word for light-red wine originally, later dark-red wine imported from Bordeaux
DDown 48:	From the Greek for “swimming”, the aggregate of natant organisms in a lake or sea, from whales to shrimp
DDown 49:	“Cup of tea” or “you and me” in bingo lingo; or, the number of people said to equate to a crowd
DDown 51:	A pronged utensil such as a sucket for eating sweetmeats
DDown 54:	A unit of mass equal to 12 slugs; a duck or score of zero in cricket; a dab or spot of colour; or, a globule