Possible Clues:

• Take a crack at
• "The Federalist" component
• Trial in which appeal initially is heard
• "A literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything": Huxley
• Try from South Africa briefly put in commentary?
• Try drugs before show
• Test question, maybe
• Piece of prose
• Paper reported downsizing of Brownshirts
• Thoreau's ''Civil Disobedience,'' for one