Fruit And Nut Challenge

[Joy41]

Hi - All answers are fruit or nuts - many thanks for any help....
1. Shy Nut
7. Originated in Damascus
8. Bowler's Measurement
11. On the Fiddle

[Wharton]

1 coconut

[furrypusscat]

1. Coconut ??

[bibblebub]

7) apricot

some considered it to originate in Damascus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot#History_of_cultivation

[ubasses]

11 There is piece on a violin called the nut??

[scorpiojo]

8 peach? (A delivery bowled by a fast bowler, considered unplayable).

[Georgiesmum]

1) Coconut (a coconut shy at a fair)