Possible Clues:

• Wanted to have made some dough, say?
• In want of a couple of editors at last
• Was in want
• Wanted to hear what one did with dough
• Lacked
• So Ted is after getting wan
• Required study about river that's rising
• How Ted is after getting wan
• What wan Ted did with his dough, by the sound of it
• Wan Ted gets up the Dee with Ned around