Possible Clues:

• Military tribunal
• Try, in service, to woo poet
• Try in a major way to woo somebody with marital trouble
• Cultivate a writer of epigrams? One tries
• Charge for poor service? This requires a judge before mother goes on trial drunk!
• Military proceeding
• Reportedly picked up crowd controller for trial
• Pursue arty one making shapes - a base type similar to one of those in 3 down
• Try in a major way, to woo somebody with marital trouble
• Decider on military law