USA Today - Nov 22 2013

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Clues Answers
"I could go on, but won't" ETC
"Meet Me ___ Louis" INST
"The Age of Reason" author Thomas PAINE
"The Joy of Cooking" writer Rombauer IRMA
"What ___ can I say?" ELSE
"___ in victory" (grade school learning phrase) VAS
"___ Like the Wind" (Patrick Swayze hit) SHES
1969 Nobel Peace Prize winner (Abbr.) ILO
6,272,640 square inches ACRE
Accepts more punishment for BEARSTHEBRUNTOF
Alexander Pope piece ESSAY
Alternatives to souchongs PEKOES
Assay materials ORES
Assists AIDS
Bachelor's last stand? ALTAR
Battery electrode ANODE
Beat badly MAUL
Bed with bars CRIB
Biggest blood vessel AORTA
Bit of an uproar HOOHA
Brewery sights OASTS
Brewing AFOOT
Burst of growth SPURT
Cancel, as a launch SCRUB
Certain slow-moving creature HAWKSBILLTURTLE
Checks out the joint CASES
Chimney blackener SOOT
City in central New York UTICA
Complaint, slangily BEEF
Dance, when doubled CAN
Feature of Frankenstein's monster SCAR
February flower? ROSE
Fictional Springfield minor leaguer ISOTOPE
Frilly fabric LACE
Fruit-cocktail fruit PEAR
Fruity-smelling compound ESTER
Get ___ start (run behind) ALATE
Guinness Book modifier MOST
Clues Answers
Gumbo base OKRA
Hardly four-star cuisine SLOP
Hyperbolic function SINH
Jerseys and such CATTLE
Knife STAB
Labor's partner PARTS
Lacks the ability CANNOT
Laugh-a-minute type RIOT
Layer of polish COAT
Marquess or viscount, e.g PEER
Mer, essentially EAU
Michigan and Ontario LAKES
Negative conjunction NOR
Not concealed OVERT
Not even close AFAR
Not written, as a test ORAL
One who works despite a strike SCAB
Pacific nation once known as Pleasant Island NAURU
Political convention meeting CAUCUS
Political influence CLOUT
Pony up for a hand ANTE
Prefix with "China" INDO
Pride sound ROAR
Regained consciousness WOKE
Sage of India RISHI
Sao ___, Brazil PAULO
Singing group of three TRIO
Strikes down SMITES
Tax-deferred savings plan IRA
Tiny amount IOTA
Video game franchise since 2001 HALO
Wedding dessert CAKE
What people choose to be? SAINTSORSINNERS
Where ships come in SEAPORT
Woman's bow of respect CURTSY
Young chaps LADS
___ canal (dental operation) ROOT
___-Kettering Institute SLOAN