What are the chances?

Here's a nice clue by Tim Moorey for The Week Crossword Number 783:

                Failure's sent to a morgue abroad in this  (4, 2, 7, 8)

The word "abroad" has a double function here; one of them could signify Russia.

Charles Dodgson is never far away

I love this elegant crossword clue
          Eccentric that appears in strange dream (3,6)
by Brendan in the Guardian. The whole clue is both the definition and a cryptic anagram. Such clues are known as an "& lit" clues.

John Graham's Desert Island Discs

Kirsty Young teased one of his favourite clues out of Araucaria on BBC Radio 4's never-ending parade of aspiring castaways. It went something like this:
"Going to the country? Let Green Line coach drop companion off (7,8)"
Be careful how you pronounce your Ls and Rs. 

Nonagenarian Monkey Puzzler

Reformed Unitarian, Ray, ace cruciverbalist (9,6).
Happy birthday, John!

Havana Rollers

If you know some Spanish, it turns out that the sentence "The cat adores fish" can be parsed in two ways. I learnt today that catador means 'cigar factory' and also, according to this Wikipedia entry, a person that

"... sits in the front of the torcedores (cigar rollers) and reads from a daily newspaper or a book so that they do not get bored by the monotonous work."

Things like this and the Buena Vista Social Club make Cuba sound rather fun. The warm weather probably helps.

Two wrongs make a right

Talking of adders, I have always enjoyed sums like this one

+ WRONG

    WRONG

     RIGHT

     =====

where you have to substitute distinct digits for the letters so that the arithmetic is correct. As in this case, the digits are usually specified to be non-zero.

I have been trying to devise some puzzles involving either the capital Greek letter, or the word, 'sigma'. In the spirit of the above sum, I need solutions for this multiplication:

HELP x ME = SIGMA.

I have found one but suspect there are more -- all suggestions gratefully received.

Junctural Metanalysis

In an earlier post I expressed wonder at the human brain's ability to parse a stream of spoken sounds and hear them as a sequence of recognised words that convey meaning. Sometimes, it seems, the process fails. For instance, there are a number of modern English words that arise from misplacing the space between the indefinite article 'an' and a noun with an initial vowel. Take the word newt, for example. The noun was once ewt, from the Old English eft, but 'an ewt' became 'a newt'. Sometimes it works the other way round. For instance, 'an adder' was once 'a nadder' from the Old English word naedre for a snake. In everyday parlance, his process is called rebracketing, false splitting or misdivision, rather than the technical name of the title.

Many nice examples can be found in this Wikipedia rebracketing article, including the derivation of the expression apple pie order from a mishearing of the French nappes-pliées, meaning "neatly folden linen". (I wonder if you can mis(s)hear sheep.)