Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers - Saturday, 22nd July 2023

There are 35 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 22nd July 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Married name of the 19th-century mathematician and computer pioneer Augusta Ada Byron who, in her writings about Charles Babbage’s analytical engine, pondered the notion of AI-generated music
AAcross 12:	Michelangelo’s 17-foot-tall sculpture, carved out of a single slab of previously rejected white Carrara marble, that became one of the most famous statues in the world
AAcross 13:	Thought to derive from early Dutch for “fine bread”, baked rounds or quadrants of plain or fruited dough, subject to a long-running debate as to whether said cakes are spread with jam first, or cream
AAcross 14:	An audible bite; a sudden release or breakage of an elastic band; a cold spell; a ginger nut; dialect for a packed lunch; or, a disappearing photo or video sent on a popular chat app
AAcross 15:	Based on Persian for “gold”, a toxic element with compounds including orpiment, or king’s yellow as a pigment, once used as an untraceable of murder known as the king of poisons or poison of kings
AAcross 16:	The making of a decision by random selection of a straw or a slip of paper etc; or, by extension, an assigned or apportioned share; or, one’s destiny, fate or fortune
AAcross 17:	From Middle High German for “nibble” or “eat in secret”, a Yiddish word used as British slang for food
AAcross 18:	An onomatopoeic word for a soft sound of a flute, saxophone or trumpet etc; an act of blowing one of the said instruments; or, an amble, leisurely drive or short pleasure trip
AAcross 19:	A holler, wail, yell or other inarticulate shout; a slogan, war whoop or watchword; a street trader’s call of wares for sale; or, a fit of weeping, over proverbial spilt milk, for example
AAcross 21:	From the French for “green earth”, a greyish-green pigment consisting of powdered glauconite, used for tempera, watercolours and underpainting for pink flesh tones	TERRE VERTE
AAcross 23:	A kitchen sideboard for crockery; a table upon which food/meat was prepared for use; a lady’s maid; or, a theatre’s wardrobe assistant, helping actors with costume changes
AAcross 26:	From Sanskrit for “instrument of thought”, a sacred word/syllable such as “Om” recited in meditation; or, any frequently repeated motto/phrase
AAcross 28:	A heron whose French name, “aigrette”, is used to describe one of said wader’s plumes; or, a feathery crown or “clock” of a dandelion
AAcross 31:	A pull or tug; a transported or dragged load; the distance of said load’s conveyance; or, the amount of fish, goods, loot or medals etc caught, purchased, plundered or won
AAcross 33:	From the Latin for “bee”, a genus of insects whose hexagonal honeycomb cells were pondered some 2,000 years ago by Roman scholar Varro
AAcross 34:	A thin surface layer of ice, milk or oil; a quick read/glance; or, a bounce of a pebble in ducks and drakes
AAcross 36:	The arrangement or plan of something ; the format of a printed page; a formation of cards in patience; or, a configuration of dominoes
AAcross 36:	The arrangement or plan of something ; the format of a printed page; a formation of cards in patience; or, a configuration of dominoes
AAcross 38:	Blackberry- or raspberry-shaped blobs of molten glass fused to a rummer, vase or other piece of glassware for decoration or grip
AAcross 39:	From Italian for “alone”, a piece or passage for one voice/instrument
AAcross 40:	From “mud, ooze, sludge”, Irish for a mudflat or mire; or, a person regarded as crude, lazy, slovenly or lacking social refinement
AAcross 41:	Composer who intended his unfinished Universe Symphony to be performed by orchestras stationed on mountains overlooking valleys
AAcross 43:	Word for a spindle’s flywheel or wharve originally, later a pattern of concentric circles; a single convolution in a spiral shell; a radial arrangement of petals or leaves; or, a gyre or swirl in a fingerprint
AAcross 45:	Word, from Old French for “bell” and medieval Greek for “drum”, for klang, sound quality or tone colour
AAcross 46:	A toy, also called a moppet, that is typically homemade from remnants or scraps of cloth; or, as one word, a luxuriantly coated blue-eyed cat	RAG DOLL
AAcross 49:	A fruit-and-nut biscuit with a plain chocolate base; silk/satin historically imported from the Tuscan capital; a pie without a crust beneath the meat; or, a Modena-like fancy pigeon
AAcross 52:	Author of The Raven rhyme
AAcross 53:	From the Spanish for “peacock”, a slow stately dance evocative of the courtly swishing of said fowl’s train
AAcross 55:	Loop for drawing stage curtains, hence the drapes themselves ; or, flaps attached to files or index cards
AAcross 57:	Any one of the tutelary Roman household gods worshipped in association with the penates
AAcross 58:	From the Italian for “thick paper”, a preliminary sketch/modello of a fresco or tapestry; or, a comic drawing
AAcross 60:	Word for a cessation whose root, meaning “league” or “mile”, refers to a distance after which one pauses
AAcross 61:	A suckerfish whose name, from Latin for “delay, hindrance”, alludes to its supposed habit of slowing ships
AAcross 62:	From the Persian for “king”, a game from whose name a word for a pattern of squares derives
AAcross 63:	A triangular typically apple-filled pastry; an old word for a small shawl; a company’s gross revenue; or, a front-page article, continued overleaf	TURN OVER
DDown 1:	A cloudburst or rainstorm
DDown 2:	A spouted vessel such as a Brown Betty, often kept warm with a cosy	TEA POT
DDown 3:	A pageant, parry, prance, procession or public promenade
DDown 4:	Italian designer who created the iconic “safety pin” gown worn by Elizabeth Hurley to the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere in 1994
DDown 5:	Garden from which Adam and Eve were expelled for eating forbidden fruit scrumped from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
DDown 6:	“Cobbler’s-awl” or “scooper” known collectively as an orchestra, adopted as the RSPB’s symbol of protection
DDown 7:	A feldspar mineral known as moonstone when displaying an opalescent play of colours
DDown 8:	In meteorology, a contour line on a weather map connecting points with equal mean summer temperature
DDown 9:	A snail ommatophore or tentacle whose drawing in is alluded to in a phrase referring to restraint or thrift
DDown 10:	Term coined in the 1950s for a class of rich and fashionable people who fly/travel widely for pleasure	JET SET
DDown 20:	Sharing a root with the Greek for “season”, a unit of time upon which the calendar or an almanac is based
DDown 22:	A morning person who gets up with the lark; or, one who arrives ahead of time, rather than fashionably late	EARLY BIRD
DDown 24:	Sun in —; term for a heraldic representation of the Sun in its glory with rays and a human face
DDown 25:	Actress Dame Edith who delivered the famous “handbag” line in her role as Lady Bracknell
DDown 27:	A capture or catch; one’s view; a scene filmed without interruption; or, a sign of successful vaccination
DDown 29:	Meaning “dove”, an old German monoplane with recurved wings
DDown 30:	High-pitched barks of small dogs; or, with definite article, wrist spasms of golfers or other athletes, similar to the “dartitis” of darts players
DDown 32:	A “sagitta”, such as that inflicting a poisonous wound said to be healed with the root or starch of “herbe aux flèches”; or, a sugarcane tassel
DDown 35:	From the name of a historical alley in London for playing a croquet-like game, a shaded or sheltered walk; or, an enclosed shopping centre
DDown 36:	Zodiacal sign represented by a symbol of the scales of justice 
DDown 37:	Bivalve mollusc whose hinged shells inspired the flip phone
DDown 42:	A cast-off, descent, fall, lowering or plummet of something such as an aitch, goal, name, stitch or a metaphorical brick or clanger
DDown 44:	Seat of the Marquesses of Bath near Horningsham in Wiltshire	LONGLEAT
DDown 45:	A channel carrying water away from a mill, turbine or water wheel
DDown 47:	Sculptor of the bronze lions at the base of Nelson’s Column whose painting Quiz depicts a belled Maltese, a mouse and a St Bernard	LANDSEER
DDown 48:	A smooth white sauce or “blanc” of roux blond enriched with stock
DDown 50:	A chief, front-runner, pathfinder, trailblazer or other person who shows the way by going first
DDown 51:	Town in England’s north noted for its curranty cakes or pastries once banned by Cromwell’s puritans
DDown 53:	A forest or grove of cone- and needle-bearing trees; or, a hothouse or pit in which ananases are grown
DDown 54:	From French for “become green”, an old heraldic term meaning “charged with green leaves”, as a bordure
DDown 56:	A trudge; a wallop; a hard cricket shot emphasising strength over skill; or, a spell of strenuous/tedious work
DDown 59:	Blush-like wine whose name, derived from the French for “pink”, indicates its carnation-like colour