Cryptic food and drink

Duck59 said:
Ah...

Not grape, but it does grow on a tree. You can get oil from them.
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Ha ha... you might as well have just given me the answer. But I do think the 'definition' part of the clue is a bit vague especially as olives can be either green or black. Is Paul always like that? Oh, and are you any further with the dessert clue?
 
Ah, rhymes with sherry.

I thought Paul's clue was fair. It was me that alluded to the fruit because it's more relevant to this thread, but he was using olive in the sense of the colour. I like his crosswords, though some don't. I think his style is in the mode of Araucaria.
 
Duck59 said:
Ah, rhymes with sherry.

I thought Paul's clue was fair. It was me that alluded to the fruit because it's more relevant to this thread, but he was using olive in the sense of the colour. I like his crosswords, though some don't. I think his style is in the mode of Araucaria.
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Forgive me. I'm being super thick lately. It is of course fair. It clicked last night before I read your post that he was referring to olive green! I suppose I was side-tracked by fruit! Perhaps I'd better try some of Paul's crosswords as Araucaria used to be my favourite.

So... have you solved rest of the dessert clue?
 
Paul is a bit wackier than Araucaria and I find that you often sit there for ten minutes and wonder if you're going to get anywhere. Then it all seems to fall into place and you've done the whole thing. I usually finish his crosswords and I find them intelligible.

The compiler that used to leave me bewildered was Bunthorne. I can remember sitting in an Oxford pub with about five or six of us trying to get somewhere with a Bunthorne crossword. Between us, I think we managed to get around ten answers in two hours.

I get the feeling that the cherry concoction is something of which I've never heard. Scalufito??!
 
Duck59 said:
Paul is a bit wackier than Araucaria and I find that you often sit there for ten minutes and wonder if you're going to get anywhere. Then it all seems to fall into place and you've done the whole thing. I usually finish his crosswords and I find them intelligible.

The compiler that used to leave me bewildered was Bunthorne. I can remember sitting in an Oxford pub with about five or six of us trying to get somewhere with a Bunthorne crossword. Between us, I think we managed to get around ten answers in two hours.

I get the feeling that the cherry concoction is something of which I've never heard. Scalufito??!
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Its a French dessert. You ought to have heard of it as its not an obscure dish. If I pop the name of the dish into google, Jamie's version comes out top, followed a few down by Nigel Slater.
 
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