Related Clues:

• Cleared up leaves, say, on a slope
• Inclined to collect cards in one colour
• Jack's surprisingly set upon disposing of one that's worn down
• Collected cuttings from Playboy, several hundred
• Head of Kew, in expensive clothing, returned and levelled garden?
• Gardened
• Searched e.g. Donald head to toe
• Painter maybe hurried to get sanded
• About to trap snake, died and croaked
• Amassed (with "in")
• Spoke hoarsely
• Had an inclination and worked in the garden
• Tended to leaves
• Smoothed, as a sand trap
• In pain though not catching cold on slope