Possible Clues:

• Is the American such a nut as to get his teeth into it around it?
• Kidney-shaped nut of tropical tree
• Nut in a toxic shell
• Use teeth to eat a second nut
• With money we get a turnover, enough to make us nuts
• The money we raised for a small food item
• Being so nutty, we get back after the money
• While inside, munch a type of nut
• Party nut
• We come back after the money. Must be nuts