Possible Clues:

• Repetitive-sounding vitamin deficiency
• Disease in fruit recurring reportedly
• B-deficiency illness
• Drink one to limit bone disease
• Disease of more than one fruit, we hear
• Vitamin B deficiency disorder
• 'The complaint of a pair of 10 acrosses, by the sound of it (4-4)'
• Thiamine deficiency woe (2 words)
• Two fruity items mentioned caused complaint
• Fruit repeatedly said to produce disease in East