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Deserving peerage, in conclusion (8)

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entitled

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'deserving' is the definition.
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'peerage in conclusion' is the wordplay.
'peerage' becomes 'title' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'conclusion' becomes 'end' (end is a kind of conclusion).
'title' put into 'end' is 'ENTITLED'.

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(Other definitions for entitled that I've seen before include "Authorised; bearing the name" , "Gave a right to, or named a book" , "Given right - named" , "with power?" , "permitted" .)

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