Wee Stinker

[ArranBrown]

Hmm - three tricky ones left this week:

4D. Ape here (2,4) I- R-C- Is it 'In Rock' (as in Gibraltar)?
21A. Shades of 13 (3) B-- The answer to 13 is 'Sunshine' as in panda.
18D. This Tina Turner's 16 (5) T--C- The answer to 16 is 'Sweetie', also as in panda. NB second letter of 18D is the same as third letter of 21A.

Anybody solved them? Any assistance much appreciated.

[maurice]

Can you explain for the uninitiated what panda has to do with sunshine? I don't live in Britain --- maybe that's the problem! Then it might be possible to help with 18 or 21.................

[bibblebub]

and the connection between panda and sunshine/sweetie is not clear to someone who has lived in England all their life

[gillie3431]

4 down is "in rome" - 12 across - amende

[boxtops]

Sunshine and Sweetie are the names of the pandas who have just come from China to live at Edinburgh Zoo.

[bibblebub]

ah, that explains it - i'm not into cuddly animal stories so the names passed me by

[maurice]

I don't even understand "in Rome":do you have to be Scottisch to follow this thing at all???!!!

[sandyRoe]

ape someone...when in Rome do as the Romans do

[ArranBrown]

Thank you, everybody, and sorry for causing panda confusion. I got it all sorted out, once I got the incorrect 'C' in 4D amended.

[maurice]

Just in case you're still around,AB:what were the other 2 answers,& why? Spent so much time trying to crack the clues I'd like to know!

[ArranBrown]

For Maurice: 18D was 'Twice', because 'Tina' twice is an anagram (hence 'turner') of Tian Tian (Sweetie), the female panda. 21A turns out to have been 'B/W' or 'B&W' (black and white) which are the shades of a panda. Hope this week's puzzle is less devious!