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I don't believe I'm unintelligent but can someone explain the answers to a couple from the RT 5 from last week.
8 ac "Fugacious" I understand the explanation I found on line - but whoever uses "fugacious" in everyday conversation?
I digress - 11 ac: "Ambassador delaying explosive test here" Answer "Headingley" - OK, "HE" and anagram of "delaying " and obviously where the the test matches are played. but "Ambassador"? or is this crossword speak for anagram of which I have so far been ignorant?
16 ac: Answer "Tagetes" (another everyday word - but no problem there) - Clue: "Flower bed away from house gets planted over" - OK, "cot" from "cottage" gives us the "tage" but where do we derive the "tes"? - from "gets"? - come on!
24 ac: Answer "gelid" - Clue: "Icy cover on turning, say" - Alright, I need to mingle in higher circles to increase my vocabulary but "lid" for "cover" fair enough, but "jay" (I read in the dictionary the pronunciation is "jaylid") for turning? - help!
3 dn: "May get a link for their peninsula" was by this stage beyond my "little grey cells" to fathom but I hope the Maya people were happy on the Yucatan peninsula!
I've got that off my chest - whoever No5's compiler was he had the better of me - just lately I've been doing rather well on the RT.
Oh, those were just the ones where I didn't understand the answers - he had me fooled on more!
Thank you for your patience in wading through this diatribe.

ii Ambassador = His Excellency = HE

16 Planted = Set , reverse it

24 Say = EG , reverse it

tes = set (planted) reversed
say=eg, then reversed to ge

3 May gets A + Maya peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula

= Maya not +

"fugacious" can be used to apply to the permanence of artists colours (these are not the recommended ones!)
HE is a common abbreviation for His Excellency - title of an ambassador. The "explosive" is a great distractor - it's the anagram indicator for "delaying"
"gets planted" could be "set", over gives "tes" (I struggled with this one)
"say" could be "e.g.", turning gives GE
You have the Maya link

"fugacious" can be used to apply to the permanence of artists colours (these are not the recommended ones!)
HE is a common abbreviation for His Excellency - title of an ambassador. The "explosive" is a great distractor - it's the anagram indicator for "delaying"
"gets planted" could be "set", over gives "tes" (I struggled with this one)
"say" could be "e.g.", turning gives GE
You have the Maya link

NB

11 Explosive is the anagram indicator