Famous landscaper’s name on top of hill (5)
I believe the answer is:
brown
'famous' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'landscaper's name on top of hill' is the wordplay.
'landscaper's name' becomes 'br' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'top of' means to remove the first letter (I've seen 'top' mean this).
'hill' becomes 'down' (I've seen this in other clues).
'down' with its first letter taken off is 'own'.
'br'+'own'='BROWN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for brown that I've seen before include "Colour of earth" , "(Of a site) previously built on" , "Mixture of red, yellow and blue" , "Colour - grill lightly" , "Four-point ball" .)