Pair of chic yellow shades help when solving? (8)
I believe the answer is:
chambers
'help when solving?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'pair of chic yellow shades' is the wordplay.
'pair of chic' becomes 'ch' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'yellow shades' becomes 'ambers' (I've seen this in another clue).
'ch'+'ambers'='CHAMBERS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chambers that I've seen before include "A judge's rooms" , "Set of rooms as for judge" , "Judge's room - dictionary" , "vaults" , "Judge's room for hearing cases in private" .)