| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| MERITS | Deserves | |
| EARN | Deserves | |
| EARNS | Deserves | |
| DESERVER | One who deserves. | |
| URNS | Reportedly deserves tea containers | |
| FLUMMERY | Cold pudding deserves empty compliments | |
| GALLOWS | A wretch who deserves the gallows. | |
| DEMERIT | The state of one who deserves ill. | |
| TURN | A good one deserves another runt to be unleashed | |
| REVERENCE | That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. | |
| DAMNABLE | Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. | |
| RESPECTABILITY | The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. | |
| DESERVE | To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. | |
| SATIRE | ...e or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of ... | |