Possible Clues:

• Tear-inducing food
• One is just skinny on either side of it
• One of those known to be a vegetable
• __ dome
• Florentine : spinach :: lyonnaise : ___
• Buffett "Heaven on earth with an ___ slice"
• Science 101 microscope specimen
• Source of the headline 'World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent,' with 'The'
• Reason for tears?
• Bulb repeatedly lit, absorbing current