2: Hit for designer Vera, reportedly (5)
3: Country encircling one's country (9)
4: First get a French weapon. (3)
5: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)
6: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)
8: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)
9: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)