Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 7th August 2023

There are 20 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 7th August 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Poet Laureate from 1984-98 who penned collections including Crow, The Hawk in the Rain and Rain-charm for the Duchy
AAcross 9:	Word for a delay; a falling behind; a curved stave of a barrel; pipe insulation; or, slang for a convict
AAcross 10:	A strand of metal; a piano string; or, an old word for a telephone
AAcross 11:	Contracted word for a long-lasting artificial wave/curl, set in the hair by means of chemicals and heat
AAcross 12:	Alsatian painter, poet, sculptor and a co-founder of Dadaism
AAcross 13:	Word for a message or mission originally, later a short trip undertaken to accomplish a small task
AAcross 14:	A printing machine; or, journalists and newspapers collectively
AAcross 16:	A tiller/wheel for steering a boat or ship; or, a position of leadership
AAcross 17:	Surname of Charlotte Brontë’s eponymous heroine Jane
AAcross 20:	From “worthiness”, the quality or state of being worthy of esteem or honour; or, self-respect
AAcross 21:	Shadow casters of sundials
AAcross 24:	Word used to describe a colour with orange, red or yellow tones
AAcross 26:	Word meaning drawn tight or tense; or, nautically, in good order
AAcross 27:	Word for a dossier or solicitor, also used to mean brusque in manner, short in duration or concise
AAcross 29:	From French for “evening”, a late-night party in a private house
AAcross 31:	Word for a game of marbles; or, the large shooter in said game
AAcross 32:	— facto, Latin for “by that fact”	IPSO
AAcross 34:	A headland; or, a short cloak
AAcross 35:	Informal word for a private eye
AAcross 36:	From “swift, changeable”, a Greek god and keeper of the winds
DDown 1:	Appearing as an everyday object such as a block of stock, a box, a die or a sugar-lump, a 3-D geometric shape with six square faces
DDown 2:	Actress whose recent roles include the Baroness in Cruella, Nancy in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical
DDown 3:	From “try, test”, a determination of the proportion of metal in an ore
DDown 4:	A paddle-like limb of a dolphin, penguin, seal or turtle; or, something reminiscent of this, such as a hand, a pinball arm or a swim fin
DDown 5:	Word for concord, conformity or consonance; or, a compact, covenant or other such contract
DDown 6:	An abrupt deviation or change of direction; a veer to avoid a collision; or, a curved flight of a ball
DDown 7:	1982 sci-fi film in which a hacker is digitised and abducted into a virtual world known as “the Grid”
DDown 15:	Indian side dish or condiment based on dahi/yogurt with kheera/cucumber and jeera/cumin
DDown 18:	A rank or row; a cooking stove; or, in maths, the set of all possible values the function can produce
DDown 19:	Another word for a figurine
DDown 22:	Novelist whose collected works, including Beloved and Song of Solomon, featured on a summer reading list of Barack Obama
DDown 23:	A word for the principle of fairness; or, administration of law
DDown 25:	A regular gathering for the buying/selling of livestock or provisions; the rate of sale; or, a grocery store
DDown 28:	A pinch; or, a minor alteration
DDown 30:	Another name for a moonfish
DDown 33:	A knot, lump or thick place in yarn; or, fabric woven from said thread