Possible Clues:

• Oval nut of south central United States
• Some jumped up menace profiting from type of nut
• Shelled open, container for nut
• Expert turned up in case of poison nut
• Ingredient in many a sandie cookie
• Tree roughly embraced by writer
• Wood used for smoking meats
• Like a walnut, a ____ nut is strictly the edible seed of a drupe
• Oval-shaped nut
• Something carried responsibly by exercise nut