All the answers are names of fruit or veg
1. From the sound of it, multiplied oranges perhaps!
2. Going back in, a token or ticket was required!
3. Turned up unconscious in wild!
4. West country flower in Devon initially!
5. Showing a bit of restraint, give up a pay award!
6. An essential because sent back!
7. Look around as quietly as possible?
8. Organised, in short, after we hold strike!
9. Piebald loses head and tail, it appears!
10. Turn letter around, we hear!
11. Coming back, find love on boat for couples?
12. Native to North Africa?
13. Take some letters from them if I go back!
14. Robot loses precious metal and bearing!
15. Trendy splutter, from the sound of it!
16. Stole unwanted third?
17. Representative inside bein' sick, we hear!