Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 24th July 2023

There are 18 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 24th July 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Victorian poet who penned the verse-novel Amours de Voyage and worked as an assistant to his wife’s first cousin, Florence Nightingale
AAcross 9:	A tank of water for live fish and hydrophytes; or, a building housing a collection of such vivaria
AAcross 10:	A flue; the shaft of a volcano; the touch hole of a cannon; or, the release of emotion/energy
AAcross 11:	A small block, peg or pin of timber; or, a drink also called egg-flip
AAcross 12:	Combat; military engagement; or, a contest or struggle generally
AAcross 13:	Edges of plane geometric figures; or, surfaces of sheets of paper
AAcross 15:	A stem of bamboo, raspberry, rattan or of the plant from which sugar derives; or, a walking-stick
AAcross 16:	A panacea/remedy; restoration to health; or, a solution to a problem
AAcross 18:	A secret doctrine; an enigmatic quality; an inexplicable happening or phenomenon; or, a whodunnit
AAcross 19:	Lumps of gold, hence small but valuable pieces of information
AAcross 23:	A counterfeit, fraud or pretence; or, in the US, a pillowcase
AAcross 26:	Word with antonyms including bumpy, odd, unequal and unfair
AAcross 27:	A citrus fruit used to make the preserve known as cheese/curd
AAcross 29:	Tissue in bones, hence a vital part or essence; or, a large courgette
AAcross 30:	An automobile, such as a shooting brake; or, a gondola of a ski lift
AAcross 31:	Meaning “victory”, a Greek deity personifying said triumph
AAcross 33:	Meaning “tail of the lion”, the second-brightest star in Leo
AAcross 34:	From the Latin for “shallow pan”, a traditional Valencian dish of saffron-flavoured bomba rice
DDown 1:	A field/sheet of drifting pack ice
DDown 2:	From the Latin for “how often”, a mathematical term for the result of division; or, the number of times one quantity is contained in another
DDown 3:	Brightness or lustre; a liking or fancy; dash or excellence in appearance or quality; old slang for a party; or, an act of polishing
DDown 4:	Orphaned at a young age, the author of 20 novels including Cakes and Ale and semi-autobiographical work Of Human Bondage
DDown 5:	Flavoured substance designed to be blown into balloons through the lips; or, the bright pink colour evocative of said chew	BUBBLE GUM
DDown 6:	From Greek for “judge, decide”, a professional reviewer of art, drama, food, literature, music etc; or, a person who generally finds faults
DDown 7:	From the Latin for “knife”, word for a maker or seller of forks, spoons and other implements for eating
DDown 14:	Vine common on tree trunks and old garden walls, Hedera helix
DDown 17:	Forest in full leaf or verdancy
DDown 20:	Channel Island after which a seaman’s traditional navy blue jersey-like sweater is named
DDown 21:	Number of people it takes to tango or to ride a tandem
DDown 22:	Word historically for a British soldier, later a Butlin’s entertainer
DDown 24:	Act of passing or shooting a ball with one’s cranium; or, a type of title for an article, chapter or page
DDown 25:	The combining or amalgamation of companies into one
DDown 28:	A diagram such as a pie chart; or, a set of nodes or vertices interconnected by edges	-GRAPH
DDown 32:	Short word for 1,000 grams