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MORDECAICousin and adoptive father of Esther who became chief adviser to King Ahasuerus (Esther 2-9) (8)
NINJATURTLESSewer-dwelling teenage superheroes whose trainer and adoptive father is a mutant rat called Splinter
ABAGTHAA chamberlain to King Ahasuerus (Esth. 1:10) (7)
VASHTIIn the Old Testament, queen of King Ahasuerus before the days of Esther (6)
TAFTPresident who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921
PHILIPPA___ of Hainault, wife and political adviser to King Edward III
MERLINWizard and adviser to King Arthur who orchestrated the sword in the stone (6)
THOMASCROMWELLAdviser to King Henry VIII; the protagonist of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels (6,8)
NOAH__ Sharma, son of Charity and adoptive son of Jai in Emmerdale (4)
TRAJANRoman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
CUMMINGSDominic ___, chief adviser to the prime minister (8)
BENVOLIOCousin and friend of Romeo in the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet (8)
THEODORAByzantine empress (527-48), wife and chief adviser of Justinian I (8)
SPLINTERAdoptive father and martial arts teacher of the group
ADACLAREFriend of Esther Summerson who marries Richard Carstone in Dickens' Bleak House (1853) (3,5)
JARNDYCEMr ____, guardian of Esther in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (8)
WOLSEYOrchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6)
MEGILLAHJudaic scroll containing the story of Esther
KINFOLKSCousins and such
CLARENDON1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, a chief adviser to Charles II (9)