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Oh - you know I meant 'Enigma'!

JimC

That is an enigma indeed. I haven't had a chance to even get started yet this week. Been too busy with getting the garden ready for this weekend's Arran Open Gardens. However tomorrow will likely be a lot of sitting around waiting for the visitors to flock in, so will get it done then. In case you're interested we opened the garden in 2006 & 2007 so you can see our garden http://www.arranonline.com/detail.php?id=104&tellafriend=1">here. I hope there will be similar poictures from this year as it has changed a lot in four years.

Just trying a recipe for courgette cake so I'll let you know how it turns out.

John from Arran - interested to hear about a recipe for a courgette cake. Do tell us how it turns out. Am always looking for recipes using courgettes apart from ratatouille (?? spelling)

Thanks for the help, everyone,. Still cant figure out 3D. Am also still stuck on 18A.

Hope all the lobelias in the Cheshire gardens are thriving despite the hosepipe ban!!

Hi Mondrian, 3d very delicate,ends ty
18a Name of racecourse, you should have F?N?W?L?/PARK. Hope that helps.

Courgette cake was a great success. The recipe is in another thread.

Here are a couple of alternative clues:

3D Try and fail to mix delicacy.

18A Stew flown kelp tar on track.

So, J d'A, gissa clue: which of those gardens is yours? I'm not going to sit here admiring them all; I've got my own to titivate...

Crimond

Hi All,
This Friday,
got all done EXCEPT 8 across; have ?r?a?
For 18a I have the county in which Luton play starting with a 'b' For 3 down (and Mondrial who helps us all,)
some old people are ????? and look Weak - before 'ty'
Keep going.

8A Fourpence dropped gravity but added a hundred european resident.

If it helps, the RT compiler makes frequent use of the term "regularly" to mean pick out alternate letters from a part of the clue. They also use "oddly" and "evenly" in the same way.

Thanks for the garden tour, John d'A. You're obviously a green-fingered pair who can even get stones to grow. Down here in the balmy south west we tend to think that everyone else suffers from bleak northernness -or wind-blasted easterlies. So Arran is lush!? Must adjust my cliché-stuffed mind!