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OriginalGriff wrote: DEUTERIUM?
Was thinking the same, myself, but absolutely no idea on the wordplay.
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Likewise! 
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ERUDITE.. Learned
.......MU Greek (m)
Minor shuffling to finish.
Heavy water was a huge clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Heavy water was, indeed, a huge clue - on a really pedantic note, though, heavy water is deuterium oxide, simple deuterium is known as heavy hydrogen - but it's probably too big a clue all the same.
The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though, as there's nothing to suggest to the solver that any "minor shuffling" (the complete anagramisation of one derived word and the reversal of another) is going on, so there's no way to know that the extra layer of indirection is there.
I'd have gone with something more like "Isotope produced by erudite confusion on return of Greek letter": The literal part of the clue leaves a great many possible answers and is therefore much harder but the word-play can now lead us to the specific answer. "Confusion" indicates that we're looking to kick off with an anagram of erudite, and "return of Greek letter" gives us a handful of possible endings to work with. I don't particularly like the surface reading of my version so I'd probably tweak it, but hopefully it shows a better balance of difficulty between the two parts of the clue.
Sorry, I really hate to be critical and I did very much enjoy trying to solve it but it was answerable rather than solvable.
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PeejayAdams wrote: The wordplay doesn't play by the rules, though
One of my favourite crossword composers uses "makes" or "makes for" as an anagram hint. His clues tend not to follow a set pattern, so there is considerable effort in just figuring how to parse the clue.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Who is your favourite composer? I'd have to go with Monk and the late, great Mass, myself.
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Thought "Deuterium" within about five seconds of reading it but couldn't make the first part of the clue tally at all.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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We've just come back from a holiday in Spain.
My wife didn't really enjoy it, because everyone could speak English and all the food was like the stuff we eat back at home.
She said, "Next time, I want to go somewhere where they eat weird sh*t and you can't understand a word they f***ing say."
So I've just booked us a fortnight in Scotland! 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Johnny J. wrote: So I've just booked us a fortnight in ScotlandHungary!
Even worse!
veni bibi saltavi
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Hungarians sell deep fried curly-wurly? 
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You'd be surprised what they eat. There's a tripe dish [with paprika] and some sort of pork [with paprika] jelly that are both beyond description; so I wont. They apparently like eating breaded meat inna bun and I swear there are just way too many recipes that include pumpkin seeds. There is no part of the pig, and I mean not one single part, that they don't eat; I'm sure I got a dish with the Oink in once.
Oh and the drink. Palinka will blow your socks off then blame next door before offering you another one to calm your nerves. The beer seems to work at exactly four glasses; with one having a wonderful paralysis effect on your hangover.
Love the country, love the people and almost understand the cuisine. 
veni bibi saltavi
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C'mon - Goulash is not weird sh*t, that's a yummy dish! 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The 'goulash' made in the UK is exceptionally weird shít! Gulyás is a soup and there as many varieties as there are cooks!
veni bibi saltavi
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That gave me a serious craving for goulash soup, and I had to go out and get me some for lunch. I'm sure that the stuff we get here in Sweden doesn't resemble the real thing either, but it's quite good actually..
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: So I've just booked us a fortnight in Scotland Hungary! Sardinia
They do not understand even Italian and they eat cheese with live worms inside (the infamous "Casu Marzu").
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I just read up on what Casu Marzu is and I don't think that I will eat for week. 
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My uncle, who is sardinian, tried several times to convince me to eat it, and is a big fan of that chees.
Of course he had three surgeries for ulcer, but the things are surely unrelated
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Then I suggest you don't book a trip to Iceland, their national dish Hákarl[^] would keep you from eating much longer than that.
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Johnny J. wrote: "Next time, I want to go somewhere where they eat weird sh*t and you can't understand a word they f***ing say."
With those exact words? She's a keep'er.
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LOL! I'm doing that! 
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You're right, I'd never eat that! Not Lutefisk[^] either. But I'm not a native either, so maybe that explains it...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Eat it? I won't be in the same town as an open can of the stuff!
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That one was not only accurate, it was 100% spot on!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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