Crossword-Solution: PNEUS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

There was the trail of the “pneus” as clear to read as a written message, and we followed, relieved of doubt.

Off we went, in flowery Spanish speech kissing the señora’s feet, while she kissed our hands; Don Cipriano leaped upon a horse to see us off, all his dogs about him; and ten minutes later our pneus were pressing the track in the white dust made by the Lecomte.

Save for the grey Lecomte, scarcely a motor had we seen since leaving Biarritz, except in Madrid; but now, when I tried to decipher the road hieroglyphics, the dust showed more than one track of pneus.

The sights of the pavement, the sound of pneus upon asphalt, the very smell of burnt petrol--each appealed to him as part of the alluring whole he loved.