Possible Clues:

• Capsicum
• Pregame practice in Cincinnati?
• Salad ingredient
• Colorful salad veggie
• Leftist attack? You can stuff it!
• It's fairly hot, yet sometimes chilly, they say
• Plant with hot, pungent fruit
• Ripe fruit prepared, cored and purêed, containing energy
• KN, by the sound of it
• Rosy, go for each edible pod