Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 17th April 2023

There are 14 across clues and 18 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 17th April 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 6:	Actress whose roles include Miss Shepherd in Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van and Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
AAcross 7:	Short journeys undertaken to perform necessary commissions or tasks; the objects or purposes of said trips; or, dialect for shopping
AAcross 9:	Direct vis-à-vis interaction; or, as one word, an app enabling a virtual form of said connection by means of video calls over Wi-Fi	FACE TIME
AAcross 10:	General word for an actor, contender, gambler, gamer, instrumentalist or sportsperson
AAcross 11:	A system of government or rule, especially when authoritarian; or, an orderly method or procedure
AAcross 13:	Area of ground or land equipped for holidaymakers and their tents
AAcross 16:	Seeds typically roasted/salted as snacks or blended into “butter”; or, a paltry or trifling sum of money
AAcross 18:	A piggery or sty; boars and sows collectively; or, hoggish behaviour
AAcross 21:	A headlong dash of panicked cattle/horses; a scramble by a crowd of people; or, any mass rush
AAcross 23:	Malaysian or Indonesian condiment of chillies and spices
AAcross 24:	Word for a mutual drinking toast originally, later an informal or familiar chat; a rubbing of shoulders; or, an oaty biscuit created by McVitie’s
AAcross 27:	Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula
AAcross 29:	French word for a jersey worn for cycle-racing; tights for gymnastics or ballet; or, a one-piece swimsuit
AAcross 30:	The body’s mid area, sometimes described as waspish/hourglass
DDown 1:	A hose or other tube; a butt of wine equal to two hogsheads; a high voice; a note of a bird; or, a chillum
DDown 2:	A type of horse-drawn seat on wheels for a single passenger
DDown 3:	Resistance against attack, danger or harm; a country’s military forces; the plea of the accused in a lawsuit; or, the action of protecting one’s goal or wicket against the opposition
DDown 4:	A beam, chock, pole, stick, wedge etc as a temporary support
DDown 5:	Yearbooks; or, the entries recorded in said chronicles
DDown 6:	An announcement or proclamation; an official account of facts for release to the media; or, a document issued by one’s bank, summarising debits and credits
DDown 8:	Forename of the author of a diary and subsequent books featuring the character Adrian Mole
DDown 12:	From the Greek for “go”, word for a charged atom or molecule
DDown 14:	A gull; or, a sound of a cat
DDown 15:	A change of mind; a reversal in policy or course of action; or, a physical 180° rotation
DDown 17:	A pedal digit or “tootsie”
DDown 19:	Game in which matchsticks are taken from heaps each turn
DDown 20:	Boards or valance-like drapes for concealing curtain rods
DDown 22:	An insect whose name derives from the Greek for “prophet”, in allusion to its praying posture
DDown 23:	Mole- or mouse-like mammals
DDown 25:	The derived SI unit of electrical resistance, with the symbol Ω
DDown 26:	A male bovine, elephant or whale; a strong, brutish person; or, slang for balderdash, cobblers or nonsense
DDown 28:	Latin name of the corn lily