Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 29th May 2023

There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 29th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 5:	19th-century Scottish author whose adventure novel Treasure Island popularised the idea of a pirate’s map marked with an X
AAcross 7:	Passenger vehicle with a single or a double deck; or, an informal word for an old aircraft or car
AAcross 9:	A mathematical vector operator, also called a rotation; a ringlet of hair; an eddy; or, a weight-training exercise for strengthening one’s biceps
AAcross 10:	Forename of Sir McKellen who played the character Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies	IAN
AAcross 11:	An astrobleme; one of the circular depressions on the surface of the Moon; or, a volcanic caldera
AAcross 12:	A line marked on the ground in the children’s game “potsy”; or, a short name for whisky distilled in “Alba”
AAcross 14:	A strip of icons displayed on a computer screen that can be clicked to perform various functions
AAcross 16:	Fine white plaster as seen in the architecture of John Nash
AAcross 18:	A muscle injury; a melody; a particular variety of a microbe etc; or, intense mental or physical effort
AAcross 21:	Physicist who helped establish the wave theory of light and invented a lens used in lighthouses
AAcross 22:	A variety of edible seaweed served in Japanese-style salads
AAcross 23:	Latin word meaning “queen”
AAcross 25:	Informal or short word for a sweet course or dish, such as apple pie, Eton mess or roly-poly
AAcross 26:	Shell of a seed or a coconut
AAcross 27:	Informal word/name for a GP; or, one of the dwarfs in a Disney film
AAcross 28:	Spear-like green or white vegetables often sold in bundles
DDown 1:	Dingle, valley or wooded hollow
DDown 2:	Radio astronomer awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the discovery of pulsars	HEWISH
DDown 3:	An elimination tournament; a blow in boxing that renders an opponent unconscious; or, a smasher, stunner or other example of an attractive or impressive person or thing
DDown 3:	An elimination tournament; a blow in boxing that renders an opponent unconscious; or, a smasher, stunner or other example of an attractive or impressive person or thing
DDown 4:	Swedish pop group with a palindromic name who released the palindromic single SOS in 1975
DDown 5:	Origins; fountainheads or springs; books, documents or quotes cited in the references of research articles etc; or, informants
DDown 6:	An instrumental composition to be “sounded” or played as opposed to a cantata or “sung piece”
DDown 8:	A bullock or young male ox
DDown 13:	From the French literally meaning “mole”, the dusky brownish-grey colour of said velvety mammal
DDown 15:	Wine merchant’s son noted for his work on latent heat and carbon dioxide or “fixed air”
DDown 17:	Mineral known as vermilion when used as a pigment; or, the bright red colour of this after which a day-flying moth derives its name
DDown 19:	From “give what is due”, the Greek goddess of retribution
DDown 20:	A blunder or misstep	SLIP-UP
DDown 21:	Campestral piece of land; the background of a coin, flag or shield; or, the collective runners in a race
DDown 22:	Tall boots for fly-fishing; or, water birds such as sandpipers
DDown 24:	An irritating cutaneous sensation triggering an urge to scratch; or, any constant or restless desire
DDown 26:	Word meaning eminent, euphoric, gamey, great in rank or tall