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Not following the plot! (6,2)

Nasty sting needs oil from nuts (6,2)

Shutting mine has leaders going ballistic (6,2)

Bad tempered staff used to be well-mannered (6,2)

pole > pol(it)e

Out of control about legislations? No sale!

O Carol! Caught drunk and carrying on? (6,2)

Insane logistician, ex-CIA, achieves perdition (6,2)

This hilarity could be a term for madness (6,2)

Well, you folks certainly aren’t losing it. I liked all of your clues! Several salient nice touches: paul’s lost marbles, dorrien’s one down stumper (and I loved the topical March Madness entry), hannah’s ditty, mattrom’s “evil, nasty person”, ginge’s and bigbad’s clever dropped “it” device, kt’s “no sale”… Again, really all of them. I’m going with the shadowy but formidable peterm’s nifty:

Apple being dropped and showing decay? (6,2)

The prize:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk

(AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons.)

Thanks so much, all of you. This was a pleasure- although a difficult one.

Can someone parse Peter's winning clue, thanks.