Tony Blair fronting a scandal at Central College (9)

I believe the answer is:

bagatelle

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'tony blair fronting a scandal at central college' is the definition.
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'blair fronting a scandal at central college' is the wordplay.
'fronting' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'front' mean this).
'scandal' becomes 'gate' (as in Watergate and other formations).
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'central' says to take the centre.
The central letters of 'college' are 'lle'.
The first letter of 'blair' is 'b'.
'b'+'a'+'gate'+'lle'='BAGATELLE'

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(Other definitions for bagatelle that I've seen before include "Board-game, trifle" , "Trinket - game played on a board with balls" , "shooting game" , "trifling amount" , "no serious work" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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