Royal Philandering

To stave off mental decay, I try to complete the cryptic crossword on the back page of The Week magazine, composed each week by Tim Moorey. He has reached Crossword Number 858, which means he has set more than 25,000 clever, cunning, crafty, captivating cryptic clues over 17 years or so. Here is a nice one from his latest engrossing grid:

The Duke and the Queen carry on. (9)

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.