Possible Clues:

• Jumping contest entrants
• A plague, in Exodus
• Grown-up tadpoles
• Aristophanes drama, with 'The'
• Throat troubles
• Aristophanes comedy, with "The"
• 2004 Sondheim musical, with 'The'
• They'll croak before long
• Peepers, e.g.
• Pond family