Historical clue formulations

• Tended to a Zen garden, in a way — 2025-04-27
• Played the fall guy? — 2020-03-15
• Piled leaves — 2018-05-12
• Like croupiers' tables — 2016-12-17
• Like fall leaves — 2014-03-02
• Did some garden work — 2013-09-12
• Gathered (in) — 2011-07-19
• Like baseball infields, before games — 2006-08-11
• Without leaves — 2006-05-19
• Like fall leaves — 2001-02-23
• Cleaned up after a fall — 2000-04-02
• Gathered (in) — 2000-03-19
• Like many gardens — 1999-08-22
• Amassed, with "in" — 1996-12-27
• Cleared leaves — 1996-08-12
• Cleared leaves — 1994-11-14
• Attacked vigorously — 1994-06-24