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Obscene stuff saint found in Greek letter? On the contrary (4)

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I believe the answer is:

smut

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'obscene stuff' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'saint found in greek letter? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
'saint' becomes 's'.
'found in greek letter?' becomes 'tum' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the contrary' says the letters should be written in reverse.
's' put after 'tum' is 'tums'.
'tums' written backwards gives 'SMUT'.

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(Other definitions for smut that I've seen before include "porn?" , "Soot, dirt, grit" , "Dirty jokes - black mark" , "Soot; obscenities" , "Erotica" .)

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