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[Caran]

Help please.
Last one, tried everything.
Explosive chemical.
?R?N?T?V?O?U?N?
Thanks for any help.

[cashier]

Trinitrobenzine?

[cashier]

Or trinitrotoluene

[Caran]

Thanks cashier, but it doesn't fit the letters pattern.
I have checked my crossing answers and cannot find anything wrong.

[Caran]

The "V" is there from knowledge of wines. Vinology.

[cashier]

What's the clue for the V please?

[Buenchico]

Oenology

Trinitrotoluene (TNT)

[mac44]

oenology?

[cashier]

Oenology

[Mamyalynne]

oenology

[Caran]

Thank you Chris, cashier and mac44. I knew you would sort me out.

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Caran.

I suspect that you didn't study Classics at school.

'Vinology' would be combining Latin ('vin') and Greek ('ology'). That occasionally happens with some 'artificial' words' (such as 'television', which is Greek+Latin) but it's usually a good bet that the Greek 'ology' will have a Greek prefix before it).

Pretentious? Moi?

;-)

[Caran]

I did study Classics at school Chris but our version covered more like mythology than anything like that.
I started looking at vintner and expanded from there to reach vinology.

[Mamyalynne]

It may well be incorrect in this sense but the word is in the dictionaries, including Chambers. One ref here.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/vinology