USA Today puzzle clues 2017 Oct 06

• Barack's running mate Crossword Clue
• Bit of subterfuge Crossword Clue
• "Bow-wow" equivalent Crossword Clue
• Bring into play Crossword Clue
• Canine visitor to the Emerald City Crossword Clue
• Check endorser Crossword Clue
• Choose not to attend Crossword Clue
• Church area near the transept Crossword Clue
• Clan-vs.-clan fight Crossword Clue
• Collection of Ovid's love poems Crossword Clue
• Cook-off contestant Crossword Clue
• Cops with sniffer dogs, for short Crossword Clue
• Cylindrical Chinese appetizer Crossword Clue
• Decorated, at a patisserie Crossword Clue
• Deliveries from pulpits Crossword Clue
• Elicit a grin from Crossword Clue
• Fish in casseroles Crossword Clue
• Flowers in the iris family, briefly Crossword Clue
• General's right-hand person Crossword Clue
• Germ for a patent Crossword Clue
• Gunpowder Plot planner of 1605 Crossword Clue
• Had a few too many Crossword Clue
• Hardly a whole bunch Crossword Clue
• Hotel hirees Crossword Clue
• Intestinal fortitude Crossword Clue
• Kanye West, for one Crossword Clue
• ___ Kinte ("Roots" role) Crossword Clue
• Lacking, with "of" Crossword Clue
• Layer applied by brush Crossword Clue
• Like Benedictines or Trappists Crossword Clue
• Like "funny money" Crossword Clue
• "Marat/___" (Peter Weiss play) Crossword Clue
• "No Exit" playwright Jean-Paul Crossword Clue
• Particle in a smasher Crossword Clue
• Repair shop figure Crossword Clue
• Republican-leaning section of a map Crossword Clue
• Response to "Do you mind?" Crossword Clue
• Road construction sign Crossword Clue
• "Roll Tide" school, informally Crossword Clue
• Scout's good work Crossword Clue
• Server of Duff Beer to Homer Crossword Clue
• Shake out of slumber Crossword Clue
• Showing little energy Crossword Clue
• Show that spawned the Blues Brothers, informally Crossword Clue
• Singer awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth Crossword Clue
• Slimy garden pest Crossword Clue
• Solemn "yes" Crossword Clue
• Speaker overlooking St. Peter's Square Crossword Clue
• Starchy fare, informally Crossword Clue
• Start-up capital Crossword Clue
• State emphatically Crossword Clue
• ___ Steaks (mail-order meat company) Crossword Clue
• Suit up in Crossword Clue
• Support a telethon Crossword Clue
• Texter's "Unbelievable!" Crossword Clue
• "That works for me" Crossword Clue
• "The Wire" stick-up man ___ Little Crossword Clue
• They're tracked by Doppler radar Crossword Clue
• To boot Crossword Clue
• Trash bag closers Crossword Clue
• "Truth in Engineering" automaker Crossword Clue
• Vacuum tube type Crossword Clue
• Whacker victim Crossword Clue
• Wine holder sans handles or stopper Crossword Clue
• Word that can precede the first parts of 17-, 36- and 57-Across, and 11- and 32-Down Crossword Clue