| SULTAN | Muslim leader needing a dried fruit (6) |
| LOOFAH | The interior of a dried fruit of a tropical plant used as a sponge for washing the body (6) |
| RAISIN | A dried fruit that is a common ingredient in trail mixes (6) |
| ECCLES | ___ cake, pastry with a dried fruit filling (6) |
| REDEAL | Give another hand to leader needing attention |
| ARROYO | Name for a dried-up creek in Spain and Latin America (6) |
| CORIANDER | Blue Moon Belgian White beer is brewed with this herb, which is actually a dried fruit that adds a citrus note |
| FIGNEWTON | "How about a dried fruit, Isaac?" |
| FIGROLL | Kind of biscuit filled with a dried fruit (3,4) |
| FIGS | Items on a dried fruit tray |
| CURRANT | A dried fruit (7) |
| PRUNE | A dried fruit (5) |
| SULTANA | Ruler getting a dried fruit |
| PATRIOTISM | After a time, disorder is contained by country's leader ... needing this? |
| ALEXANDER | 'Great leader' needing help virtually at end ___ blooming right! (9) |
| ANCESTRY | Trips with no leader needing time on railway line (8) |
| MANDELA | African leader needing staff from French city |
| CAKE | A sweet baked food, such as the elaborate fruit-laden "twelfth" variety cooked for the feast of the Epiphany, customarily including a dried bean and a pea (4) |
| PLUM | Damson-like fruit synonymous with "best", "choice" or "pick of the bunch"; or, a dried grape as a substitute for said drupe, as used in a pudding (4) |
| CLOVE | A hitch for a sail; or, flavouring bechamel, spicing glazed ham, spiking an oignon pique, studding an orange pomander or traditionally easing a toothache or other ail, a dried aromatic flower-bud, sha |
