Possible Clues:

• Workout for math majors?
• Analysis of perhaps local crisis in government initially
• Corrupt characters from Munich and Nurnberg — inwardly cold and calculating
• Calculating how many are taking cereal?
• Major reckoning it's shocking about royal crisis
• Process of chewing over data?
• Count getting teeth into maths?
• Character eating biscuits sounds like keeping score
• Making lots of calculations
• Calculating anaesthetic needed with crisis in middle of night