Daily Telegraph Prize Crossword 486 Monday February 12Th 2018

[Dickiedot]

1a Variety of wine grape grown chiefly in Madeira (4) b?a?

[donny48]

bual

[Flonska]

1a Bual

https://www.majestic.co.uk/wines/henriques-15-year-old-bual-17027

[Dickiedot]

thanks chaps, are you sure it's not Boal

[Flonska]

Can be . . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boal_(grape)

[Flonska]

Bual apparently refers more to a style of fortified wines:

http://www.winegeeks.com/grapes/159

So, I think Boal is more appropriate for the answer to "wine grape"

[Dickiedot]

Hi Flonska, that is my reading of it, bull being a typeof wine and bowl being a wine grape, however there is a question of one of them being an Anglicised version of the other, we'll have to wait for Danny he'll know ;-)

[dannyk13]

Buals
Dickie, be careful with 7d.22d. Alternate spellings.

[dannyk13]

Bual not bualsLOL

[Flonska]

Thank you, Danny!

[Dickiedot]

thanks Danny, having got the wine wrong last week i'm being careful this week so bull it it then. 7d I have acronym crony=friend I'm not parsing am though

[dannyk13]

https://worldsbestwines.eu/grapes/bual
I think Bpal s produced in Portugal.

[dannyk13]

^boal^ flipping typos.

[Dickiedot]

oops sorry I have Tulwar for 7d I was looking at the cryptic
doh

[dannyk13]

Tulwar is correct.

[Dickiedot]

Danny have you entered it yet? is bual correct? BRB has tulwar and origin Hindi talwar

[dannyk13]

Dickie tulwar is the one accepted.

[dannyk13]

Dickie I entered with one incorrect having put talwar, Checked with DT contact and they require tulwar.

[Dickiedot]

so 1a Bual 7d tulwar 22d Butut

[dannyk13]

Yes, good luck Dickie.

[Dickiedot]

Hi Danny, all entered all correct, thanks for your help