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(So did you actually try to solve any of them, or are you a curious cheat? ;p )

(1)

My First was Older
My Second not Hesitant
My Third White-headed
My Fourth Renowned.
My Fifth was Obliging
My Sixth Temperamental
My Seventh Cunning
My Eighth Oblivious
My Ninth was Destroyed.
Who am I?
...

Answer: Obviously the Doctor is probably the only character or thing who has/had nine anything, but if you look at the riddle you'll see that the adjectives spell 'Doctor Who' backwards with their first letters.

(2)

A man of Tara
Designs upon the throne
Androids and doubles
And peasants to work
Foiled by the Doctor
But I survived to tell the tale.
Who am I?
...

Answer: Count Grendel from the classic Who episode 'Androids of Tara'. If you recall it, it's probably most notable for a rather nice sword fight at its climax that took Grendel and the Doctor all over the castle, once the Doctor finished pretending he couldn't fight, and culminated with Grendel coolly escaping off the top of the castle into the moat to swim away.

The episode was always one of my favourites, for reasons I've never fully understood...

(3)

My first opens and closes, yet is less or, (Answer: 'Door' – 'or' = 'Do')
My second is all that is common
To cat and sorcerer (Answer: 'c' )
My third is a meal known as dinner (Answer: 'tea' or 't' )
My fourth is torn, cut both sides a bit slimmer (Answer: 'torn' – 't' & 'n' = 'or')
So string me together, and answer me this
Who had thirteen and two and will ten miss? (Answer: thirteen regenerations, two hearts, at time of riddle writing, had lost ten lives)

Answer: the Doctor

(4)

A blonde was a brunette
Was haughty, was a princess
Was distant yet close
Wished an ending, yet it came too soon.

Answer: Romanadvoratrelundar, however you spell it, better known as Romana. Or Fred.

Romana I was a brunette, haughty, distant, and wished to leave the Doctor practically on meeting him. Romana II was blonde, had a physical form modelled after a princess Astra, was quite cuddly with the Doctor and didn't wish to leave the TARDIS (or the universe) when the Time Lords called for her return to Gallifrey.

(5)

I was galling — ling-less (Answer: 'Gall')
Her father said I was the most important word
In the English language (Answer: 'if')
But my language is different
And far, far older
And I am the ray given by a sun
But spell me differently. (Answer: 'rey')

Answer: Gallifrey.

I have no idea if anyone remembers this episode, but one time when the Doctor was out of action (I believe just after his regeneration), Tegan was helplessly trying to work her way through the TARDIS' computer after a mysterious 'index file'. At the time she made some brainless comment about her father believing 'if' to be the most important word in the English language, which cued her brain that 'I. F' stands for Index File.

(6)

EXpect me to come, I play a long game. To kill and main those lesser than I would be my heart's delight — if ever I had one.
Expect to die; you cannot survive. Race members of mine, we will destroy them that are less: we are without fear.
My voice does not tremble with the emotions known to all lesser species, we are without fear.
Inside still, though, do I know a quailing? Not from cold, nor even my hatred — is this fear?
A coldness that burns like no hatred I've known.
This one I face — we shall die, we shall die. Ever, though, I'll die with my so-feared cry on the air.

this cry is my riddle. this cry is in my riddle. who am I?

Answer: The cry is 'EXTERMINATE', the who is the daleks.

Note: 'The Long Game' was the name of the ninth doctor episode where the satellite tv station he would die on first appeared, the Jagrafess at the top floor. It's later revealed that the daleks were the people behind the Jagrafess, who the Doctor refers to prior knowing their identity as 'someone...playing a long game'.

(7)

Beware me again or die as well as others who lived to fight.

Answer: Bad Wolf