Possible Clues:

• Somewhat dry fruit is immersed in water
• Gorp bit
• Granola ingredient
• There's no good in lifting dried fruit
• The artist's not out of doors and so has been kept dry
• Praising top - and - tailing fruit product
• How sweet to have such a wrinkled painter at home
• Seems the artist's not out of bed, but he's gettin' up, by the sound of it
• Current, we hear, could be gettin' higher by the sound of it
• "A ___ in the Sun" (first Broadway play written by a Black woman)