Possible Clues:

• 'One deserves to have them for the ashes, by the sound of it (5)'
• Works to make
• Merits through work
• Sounds as if the lough is what one deserves
• Gets deserts
• Acquires through effort
• Gets through effort
• One deserves to get sound to the poles
• Makes a profit from noisy vessels
• Takes home, as an Oscar