The answers to the clues below will have something in common:

1. Language spoken by over one billion people

2. Pioneering rock and roller 

3. Newspaper article feature

4. Do some yard maintenance

5. Protestant Irish

6. Experiencing fame

7. Highly desirable employment

8. Legislation to protect car buyers

9. Body form characterized by wide hips

10. Central American nation, often - derogatorily

Answers:

 

1. Mandarin Chinese

2. Chuck Berry

3. Dateline

4. Prune trees

5. Orangemen

6. In the limelight

7. Plum job

8. Lemon Law

9. Pear-shaped

10. Banana Republic

 

Each answer contains the name of a fruit - used to name or describe, not as a food.

 

Credit:

Ed Voile (#1-6)

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