Rushed scientist grasping origin of radiation in Scotland on vacation (8)
I believe the answer is:
scurried
'rushed' is the definition.
(scurry can mean to rush around)
'scientist grasping origin of radiation in scotland on vacation' is the wordplay.
'scientist' becomes 'Curie' (Marie Curie).
'grasping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'origin of' says to take the initial letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'scotland on vacation' becomes 'sd' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The initial letter of 'radiation' is 'r'.
'curie' enclosing 'r' is 'currie'.
'currie' put inside 'sd' is 'SCURRIED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scurried that I've seen before include "Moved hurriedly with quick short steps" , "Scampered, scuttled" , "Ran briskly" , "went fast!" , "Ran with quick short steps" .)