Possible Clues:

• Apple-like fruit
• One, we hear, who interferes with fruit
• Brown apple-like fruit that becomes edible once it begins to decay
• Sea god produces fruit
• Red Mal turns to the fruit tree
• The fruit of eavesdropping on someone interfering?
• Reporter's one who sticks his nose in a fruit tree
• Minute alder strangely provides fruit
• Fruit of a familiar sea god?
• Dermal (anag.)