Possible Clues:

• Free from insult an Asian potentate's wife
• It's all dried up, lieutenant, in the boiling sauna
• The potentate's consort is sweet but dry
• Little golden item, royal
• Some insult an attractive concubine
• Wife of leader, a shade insular, briefly?
• Wife of Muslim ruler
• Alas, nut wrong fruit!
• Wife of Ottoman ruler, fruity thing
• Nuts nearly all mixed with a bit of dried fruit