USA Today - Oct 12 2011

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Clues Answers
"Common Sense" man PAINE
Abrasive lava PUMICE
Apply gold leaf GILD
Arch locations INSTEPS
Assortment of chocolates SAMPLER
Brother of Shem and Japheth HAM
Brother's daughter NIECE
Buttercup kin ANEMONE
By good fortune LUCKILY
Cambridge inits MIT
Catchall abbr ETC
Chop into little bits MINCE
City near Syracuse UTICA
Close NEAR
Coke competitor PEPSI
Declaration of 1941 WAR
Delivery service UPS
Drs. group AMA
Easier to reach HANDIER
Egg-shaped OVOID
Email button REPLY
Evaluate, as gold ASSAY
Fire marshal's determination ARSON
From Cardiff WELSH
Goliath, for one GIANT
Hamburger? COMMONROUND
Handles hardship COPES
High point ACME
Hobbling gait GIMP
Ice cream cone amounts DIPS
Impede lawfully ESTOP
Indicates it's OK to joke around? ALLOWSHUMOR
Kind of system or power SOLAR
Lennon's wife ONO
Make suitable again READAPT
Male delivery? SON
Mid-afternoon, on a sundial III
More likely (to) APTER
Music quality TONE
Clues Answers
Nevada resort area TAHOE
Nothing's opposite ALL
Oarer's aches? ROWINGPAINS
Old Athens shopping hub AGORA
One appearing between numbers EMCEE
One of the Yokums PAPPY
Part of 27-Across SEPAL
Peg in the LPGA? TEE
Peruvian-born singer Sumac YMA
Planted SOWED
Prayer joint? KNEE
Repented ATONED
Ropes with nooses LARIATS
See 50-Across PASS
Serve the purpose AVAIL
Significant periods of history ERAS
Sleuth, informally GUMSHOE
Small religious group SECT
Sound heard from the herd LOW
Spanish houses CASAS
Speechless actor MIMER
Spellbind GRIP
State fundraiser LOTTO
State one's case OPINE
Suit fabric TWEED
T, in Athens TAU
Teamwork deterrent EGO
Tibetan monks LAMAS
Tie fabric REP
Tire gauge reading (Abbr.) PSI
Train heading to heaven? THEHOLYRAIL
Type of firm in "The Firm" LAW
Up there in years OLD
Use, as china EATON
Warm-up for a quarterback TOSS
Whopper LIE
___ Lanka SRI
___ Lizzie (Model T) TIN
___ Paulo SAO