Sprays water on garden, adopting gardener's ultimate talisman? (9)
I believe the answer is:
horseshoe
'sprays water' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'on garden adopting gardener's ultimate talisman?' is the wordplay.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'garden' becomes 'hoe' (to garden could mean to hoe).
'adopting' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are taken on or adopted).
'ultimate' indicates one should take the final letters (the last or ultimate letter).
'talisman?' becomes 'hoses' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The final letter of 'gardener' is 'r'.
'r' placed into 'hoses' is 'horses'.
'hoe' after 'horses' is 'HORSESHOE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for horseshoe that I've seen before include "Good luck symbol" , "which may prove lucky" , "Plate nailed to equine hoof" , "Base metal forged" , "find four supporting hobby?" .)