Eg Corrie’s character making material for tabletops (9)
I believe the answer is:
soapstone
'making material for tabletops' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'eg corrie's character' is the wordplay.
'eg corrie's' becomes 'soaps' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'character' becomes 'tone' (tone can mean a character or mood).
'soaps'+'tone'='SOAPSTONE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for soapstone that I've seen before include "Soft steatitic rock" , "Soft form of rock" , "Soft rock mainly of talc" , "Soft type of rock" , "Compact variety of talc - teaspoons (anag)" .)