Meeting standard to preserve English fruit (10,4)
I believe the answer is:
conference pear
'fruit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'meeting standard to preserve english' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'meeting' could be 'conference' (conference is a kind of meeting) and 'conference' is found within the answer.
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is located in the answer.
'standard' could be 'par' (I've seen this before) and 'par' is found within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for conference pear that I've seen before include "Common variety of fruit" , "Dessert fruit" , "Type of fruit" .)