Possible Clues:

• Growin' dried fruit
• How the sweet Academician's at home and gets dry
• Iran is wrong - this is what you get when Shiraz is really dry?
• Fruit lasts in 'what into each life must fall'
• Fruit is appearing in the fall
• Fruit managed to protect one's ego
• Fruit is planted in wet weather
• Artist is home for a little fruit
• Bran-cereal fruit
• So the painter is at home? Isn't that sweet!