Possible Clues:

• At last the fruit is just a shade spotty
• Patch of colour or light
• Spotted pack leader parking in valley
• 'The house at Little Gidding bore no resemblance whatever to a --' (Southey, Quarterly Review)
• Daughter given fruit that's splotchy
• Top of dried fruit marked with spots
• Certain Arab
• Horse with a spotted coat
• First sign of disease, fruit becoming mottled
• Writer Harriet is followed by bird on the water at Nice