Urgh! Don't like this one. (I guess it must be Key Novel.) Before I make the fire with it, can someone just give me a plausible explication of 14ac) - Staff accompanying this emperor would be from the Near East (4). It's O?T?, and surely has to be OTTO (Emperor/s), but as to the rest, well...
Thanks to both. I think they're both pretty naff clues. I still don't quite get the exact parsing of OTTO, despite the Ottoman Empire. Is that all there is? Ah, well: let's keep dancing...