Possible Clues:

• Rain is needed to produce fruit
• Dried grape used in cakes
• Display of fruit that's almost uplifting
• Gettin' up to being dry and wrinkled
• The wrinkled Academician's at home - how sweet!
• Fruit is eaten by cats and dogs
• What is in the end of 1 across makes it both sweet and dry
• Fruit for the Christmas cake is planted in wet weather
• A dried grape used in cake
• Slowly cooking peeled fruit