Middlesbrough Gazette Cryptic

[Donaldinho]

1A Distortion of French arrangement - ??????a????
1D Local target for sharp missiles - ??f?????d
2D Turned me into skin and bone - ??l??
9A Said to have excluded the poet - ????
5D Crush the Italian leaving German emperor after everything is finished - ?????????
14A Composer went round eastern shore - ????h
18A Form of address shortly that is the on the way back - ?a?m
21A Carbon monoxide to a degree can produce it - ?o??

[cupid04]

9a] bard

[mahonia]

14A beach

[Ouzel]

1d Dartboard
2d Femur
9a Bard
5d Overwhelm
18a Maam
21a Coma

[cupid04]

14a] BeACH

[cupid04]

1a] disposition?

[mahonia]

1A deformation

[cupid04]

Donaldinho, please could you put number of letters in brackets, because it
takes ages trying to count all the question marks? Thankyou in anticipation.