This Is Nuts!

Common stain color for furniture and, unlike 9A, not very milkable

TV executive Arledge who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat

The “milkable” nut. How one goes about this is the question, like “Do you have to sit on a stool?”

Center of activity (sometimes combined with a limit to become a car part)

Place or lay, or with “out” on either end, it means production

Nut you’ve never needed a cracker for

Dug or blasted for ore

Adjective generating the most ?’s above cartoon characters’ heads

Sleeve accessory used by runners to hold their cellphones

British restroom, but not to skip to

Scholarly wannabes looked down on by academic royalty

Not really necessary; too much, in a negative way

Big football receiver and blocker (abbr.)

Spa sound, or fireworks comment

Alert, usually describing people who often aren’t

Airline with cap-wearing stewardesses (defunct, along with the job title)

Understand, or “Acknowledge this proof of what you doubted, sucker”)

Latin abbr. for how we run something