Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 13th February 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 13th February 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 6:	Co-writer of the script for the first King Kong and author of crime novels including The Clue of the Twisted Candle and The Daffodil Mystery
AAcross 7:	City on the Rhône, where Van Gogh lived for a time in the residence he nicknamed the “Yellow House”
AAcross 9:	Abstinence from food as a religious observance or when “nil per os” prior to anaesthetic, for example
AAcross 10:	A group of eight electrons, lines of verse, musicians, singers etc
AAcross 11:	Passages, roads or tracks; directions of travel; idiosyncrasies; customary practices; or, routines
AAcross 12:	Soprano whose name is given to a peach pudding, raspberry sauce and a variety of very thin toast
AAcross 14:	A town in Torfaen where a type of lacquered/japanned ironware was developed in the 18th century	PONTYPOOL
AAcross 17:	One of the creatures in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark
AAcross 18:	A dealer or trader in something such as cheese, fish or hardware
AAcross 20:	Author of the 1941 comic novel titled The Monarch of the Glen
AAcross 21:	Vaporised water; locomotives powered by this; or, by extension, energy, impetus and momentum
AAcross 24:	A division of a school year; or, the duration of a pregnancy
AAcross 26:	Something flat and thin, such as a bed/mattress cover, large map, page of a book, piece of paper, sail etc
AAcross 27:	From the Sanskrit for “colour, musical tone”, a melodic form or mode in Indian classical music
AAcross 28:	Auditory sensation studied in acoustics; the distinctive style of a particular musician; or, radio, as distinguished from television
AAcross 29:	Drape or portière for a window
DDown 1:	A mass of soft or fluid matter solidified, such as blood; or, a foolish or clumsy person
DDown 2:	Leader of a military band; person with the legal rights of an adult; or, a rank of army officer between captain and lieutenant colonel
DDown 3:	Division of an orchestra; a distinct part of a book, newspaper, statute etc; or, the shape or surface formed when a solid is cut by a plane
DDown 4:	Stud wall between rooms
DDown 5:	Talon of a cat or dog; pincer of a crab or lobster; or, part of a hammer for extracting nails from walls etc
DDown 6:	Large mammal symbolising Cetus; or, by extension, a sizable example of a person or thing
DDown 8:	Likely born at her ancestral home Wulfhall or Wolf Hall in Wiltshire, Henry VIII’s third wife
DDown 13:	A mass of stone; a chopping-board; a child’s toy; or, a head-shaped mould for shaping hats
DDown 15:	French Baroque sculptor best known for his Milo of Crotona on display in the Louvre, Paris	PUGET
DDown 16:	The cheerful or pleasant aspect or point of view; or, the surface of a fried egg with its yolk face up	SUNNY SIDE
DDown 17:	Straw hats/skimmers traditionally worn with club blazers; or, coxswains, rowers or scullers
DDown 19:	Absence of noise; or, secrecy
DDown 22:	First noble gas to be discovered and isolated, atomic number 18
DDown 23:	A sudden movement; a beginning; or, the point at which a match, race etc commences
DDown 25:	From the Latin for “hammer”, a heavy wooden beetle
DDown 27:	A traditional Moroccan house, built around a central courtyard	RIAD