The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,588 - May 7 2023

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Clues Answers
'The -- --', Dickens novel originally published in 19 monthly parts PICKWICKPAPERS
Across the ocean OVERSEA
Act of offering to pay a particular amount BIDDING
Activity that imparts knowledge TEACHING
Animal such as Marty in the film 'Madagascar' ZEBRA
Appointment to meet TRYST
Be watchfully accurate and punctilious (4,4,2,3,2) MINDONESPSANDQS
Beginning of an offensive ONSET
Call to joy often used as a salutation in biblical times REJOICE
Capital of Ghana ACCRA
Capital of the North Holland province in the Netherlands HAARLEM
Child's term for an elephant coined by A A Milne HEFFALUMP
Exclamation of surprise or disbelief MYHAT
Fictional cat featured in Beatrix Potter books TABITHATWITCHIT
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Former French province in English possession from 1154 until 1204 ANJOU
Heavy staff used as a weapon CUDGEL
Horn on early motor vehicles KLAXON
Most thinly scattered SPARSEST
Muslim religious leader AYATOLLAH
Old container used for distillation ALEMBIC
Part of Liverpool, formerly home to comedian Ken Dodd KNOTTYASH
Play by George Bernard Shaw, first performed in 1905 MANANDSUPERMAN
Precious stone coloured pink by heat ROSETOPAZ
Relating to a particular time, historical or geological perhaps EPOCHAL
Right of guardianship of a minor CUSTODY
Territory consisting of ten cities in ancient Palestine DECAPOLIS
Town in Cornwall located south of Bodmin STAUSTELL
Wayne --, vocalist with the hit 'The Game of Love' in 1965 FONTANA