In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article . com,
writes:
On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
embrocation

Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods
defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S.

I think that you have it wrong. The only 5-letter ones I can find are
Theia, Coeus, Crius and (possibly) Atlas.

Clue: Search for "Titans".

They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense.

He probably went postal and bashed up one of the Romans' ones by mistake :-)

That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions,
sometimes.