Possible Clues:

• Reached out for next deed
• Offered to have put on the rack
• Stretched out once served
• At length it's finished at last
• Stretched or reached out - the hand of friendship? (8)
• Widened
• Once looked after, grew and spread
• Elongated, expanded
• At last this was apt to be for the longing
• Perhaps one longed for 2 x 10, indeed.