Uplifting ballad about last letters from Eve and figures from The Garden (6)
I believe the answer is:
gnomes
'figures from the garden' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'uplifting ballad about last letters from eve' is the wordplay.
'uplifting' is a reversal indicator.
'ballad' becomes 'song' (I've seen this before).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'last letters' says to take the final letters.
The final letters of 'from eve' are 'me'.
'song' back-to-front is 'gnos'.
'gnos' placed around 'me' is 'GNOMES'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gnomes that I've seen before include "Ornamental garden figures" , "Legendary dwarfs" , "Snog me (anag)" , "Legendary little figures, in the garden perhaps" , "Garden dwarfs from Zurich?" .)