Possible Clues:

• Are deserved to be in the end
• Made English composer duke
• It pays to have got 7 down
• Had a job to make
• Not just handed to
• Being so sound, Edward, you've deserved this
• You've deserved to have followed fifty if you were wise, Edward
• Neared (anag.)
• Worked to achieve
• Grenadine without gin - is that merited?