USA Today - Nov 3 2011

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Clues Answers
"What can I ___ convince you?" DOTO
Acclaim or honor KUDO
Activates, as fireworks SETSOFF
Actress Metcalf of "Roseanne" LAURIE
Add-on for "rings" or "roads" IDE
Adding-machine key TOTAL
Angel's trademark HALO
Arid area in Africa SAHARA
Bread buy RYE
Brilliantly-colored food fish OPAH
Cascade Range peak SHASTA
Cause of inflation? AIR
Cloth made from bark TAPA
Comedian's asset WIT
Copier brand RICOH
Cpl.'s subordinate PFC
Crime bigwig or guitar attachment CAPO
Decrease? IRON
Do some practice punching SPAR
End of a butt? ASH
Enemy's opposite ALLY
Equine pace TROT
Excited answer to "Who wants dessert?" IDOIDO
Exxon, in some countries ESSO
Fifty minutes before eleven TENTEN
Fills roles CASTS
Fond du ___ (Wisconsin city) LAC
For that reason HENCE
Four cold things WAVEWARFISHCUTS
Grammar class subjects TENSES
Hardest baseball hit to get TRIPLE
Hauled to the hoosegow RANIN
Health supplement chain GNC
Here-there connector NOR
Highway subdivision LANE
Historical span DECADE
Inventor Otis ELISHA
Investment firm T. ___ Price ROWE
Clues Answers
Island nation east of Fiji TONGA
La ___ opera house SCALA
Like bad milk RANCID
Lupino and McKinley IDAS
Member of the Bronx Bombers YANKEE
Menu phrase ALA
Most pleasant NICEST
Muse of poetry ERATO
Next year's jr SOPH
Obviously wants to know ASKS
Old Parmesan bread? LIRE
Paid players PROS
PC bailout key ESC
Perfect start to a grammarian? PLU
Play before the headliner OPEN
Play ___ in (be involved with) AROLE
Prefix with "ballistic" or "dynamic" AERO
Proposal OFFER
Raison d'___ ETAT
Remains lit, as a bulb STAYSON
Resist separation CLING
Restaurant choice THAI
Same-aged sibling TWIN
Say it's so AVER
Second word of the American national anthem SAY
Spike and Light-horse Harry LEES
Stereotypical name for a French poodle FIFI
Surreptitious summons PSST
Three cold things CREAMFRONTPATCH
Three cold things SWEATTURKEYSNAP
Throw ___ (go ape) AFIT
Time in office TERM
Tomato-impact sounds SPLATS
Two cold things SHOULDERSTORAGE
U.S. spy group CIA
Winged ALAR
Words that follow "Felix" or "bell" THECAT
___-de-France (Paris and vicinity) ILE