Telegraph Herculis Answers - Monday, 2nd October 2023

There are 15 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Herculis crossword on Monday, 2nd October 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	English poet who composed his epic Paradise Lost, beginning in medias res, some 16 years after he had become completely blind
AAcross 9:	Another word for a bridlepath
AAcross 10:	Any one of the cogs or teeth of a chainwheel; the wheel itself; or, in architecture, a piece of wood used to extend a roof over its eaves
AAcross 11:	The body’s gullet or “red lane”; said passage when sore; one’s voice; the opening or fauces of a flower’s corolla; or, something narrow, such as the neck of a vase
AAcross 12:	Name for a child’s porker-shaped money box, extended figuratively to mean “savings”	PIGGY BANK
AAcross 15:	One of India’s tea-producing states in the eastern Himalayas
AAcross 18:	Greek for “within”; or, a stoppie or front wheelie performed on a bike	ENDO
AAcross 19:	A variety of French rosé wine	TAVEL
AAcross 20:	Alcids in a family that includes guillemots, puffins and razorbills
AAcross 22:	A chute; a style of backless shoe; a piece of playground equipment; a part of a trombone; or, a woggle
AAcross 24:	An ouzel or merle esteemed for its mellow song; or, the title of a 1968 song by the “Fab Four”
AAcross 26:	Device such as a Bunsen, etna, gas jet, incenser or incinerator
AAcross 28:	A coalminer and teacher’s son who penned a once-controversial novel based on the character he named Lady Chatterley
AAcross 30:	A caramel-based ingredient traditionally used to impart a rich bistre-like colour to gravy; or, the process of toasting something
AAcross 31:	Element known heraldically or poetically as argent; or, coins, cutlery or a medal made of said metal
DDown 1:	Dutch chemist/pharmacist who invented an elaborate piece of laboratory glassware for the development of gases, such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen sulphide
DDown 2:	A word for a bastion, citadel, fortress or other defensive structure; or, by extension, a place or centre of predominance
DDown 3:	An injury inflicted by a venomous fork-tongued serpent; or, a drink of cider and lager in equal measures
DDown 4:	A chinwag, gossip, natter or other informal conversation; or, an exchange of messages online
DDown 5:	An old dilapidated vehicle; a packing case or shipping container; or, a carrier divided into compartments for milk bottles
DDown 6:	A dam; or, a fish-garth or kiddle
DDown 7:	From Latin for “elm seed”, a word for a winged key fruit or “helicopter” of the ash, maple or sycamore
DDown 13:	Forename of the author of spy novels including Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger	IAN
DDown 14:	The body’s belly button or umbilicus; or, a nombril in heraldry
DDown 16:	UK’s largest coleopteran and one that derives its name from the antler-like mandibles of its males	STAG BEETLE
DDown 17:	Word meaning dextrorotatory; or, a film with John Cleese
DDown 21:	Drink of white wine with cassis
DDown 23:	Holding some 380,000 objects and displaying 35,000 works of art, the largest museum on Earth
DDown 25:	A seed of a cereal plant; corn generally; or, a particle of sand
DDown 27:	Amphibian known as an eft
DDown 28:	Box in an opera house/theatre
DDown 29:	Professional cook or culinarian, traditionally donning a toque