Possible Clues:

• Nut ready to join bridge team
• Nut takes the money you and I put up
• Cry the bird gave when she pushed through the nut
• Nut tree in group from which rook's flown away
• After rhino appears we climbed tree
• Are the accountants so nutty as to cut this?
• Nut in mixed nuts
• Nut, for example, found in sweet
• Ready with axe, removing one hard nut-tree
• Mixed-nuts tidbit