Possible Clues:

• Mostly growing fruit
• A little fruit one’s taken into shower
• Growin' dried fruit
• How the sweet Academician's at home and gets dry
• Fruit managed to protect one's ego
• Fruit is appearing in the fall
• 1973 Hansberry-based musical
• Fruit is planted in wet weather
• Producing chopped fruit product
• Bran-cereal fruit