[Urwen]

Mine is also inspired by a different puzzle.

1. A creature with a petrifying stare exchanges one direction for another. A baddie emerges.
2. In confusion, a small, sturdy horse finds him.
3. A palindromic girl meets the Spanish, for him.
4. Two roman numerals surround a confused girl. See her.
5. Her rest by a meandering river is broken.
6. An expression denoting an example surrounded by a scattered military branch for her.
7. In confusion, she brought a rabbit.
8. Close? Just return and switch a sound with its successor to find her.
9. Reverse an anabolic drug to find him.