Using the hints following each clue, can you determine what the clue answers have in common?

1. Short changes of faith - Certain Reader's Digest publications

2. Bad news at the power plant - Combining of atoms to release energy

3. Perfectly happy Eastern European - Item needed to set up camp

4. Talk a Hall of Fame football coach into it - Green Bay Packers

5. Send-off for a jet pilot - Roy Rogers' theme song

Answers to the hints:

1. Abridged versions
2. Nuclear fusion
3. Tent pole
4. Vince Lombardi
5. "Happy Trails to You"

Answers to clues:

Each answer adds CON to a familiar phrase or name:

1. Abridged conversions
2. Nuclear confusion
3. Content Pole
4. Convince Lombardi
5. Happy contrails to you 

Credit:
James Sajdak
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