Possible Clues:

• Someone from New Zealand?
• Fruit that won't ever take off?
• Fruit with fuzzy skin
• Egg-shaped fruit with little black seeds
• Hear important little New Zealander
• Vital leak announced — one can't take off
• Ostrich's smaller kin
• A bird, food or person
• Bird, edible native of China
• They say it's an important little fruit