11/03/09 -- Election Day

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 -- Election Day

Puzzle by Barry Boone, edited by Will Shortz

The quotation, YOU CAMPAIGN IN POETRY YOU GOVERN IN PROSE (20A. Start of a quote by 1-/73-Across, with 37- and 60-Across) and MARIO CUOMO (1A. With 73-Across, former New York governor) constitutes the interrelated group of this Election Day crossword.

Mid-size entries include 42D. Willa Cather’s “My ANTONIA”; BECAME (6D. Turned out); CHEERIO (46D. “Toodle-oo!”); DISGUST (41D. Emotion conveyed by wrinkling one’s nose); ELSINORE (38D. “Hamlet” setting); EX-PATS (52D. Ones living abroad); GET ANGRY (9D. Blow one’s top); KWANZAA (11D. December celebration); 12D. “Beware the fury of a PATIENT man”: John Dryden; RECYCLE (3D. One of the three green R’s); RHAPSODY (8D. Gershwin composed one “in blue”); SCANDAL (13D. Iran-Contra, e.g.); SNEEZED (26A. What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted); STENCIL (55A. Sign painter’s help); TOW-LINES (39D. Water-skiers’ holds); TREVINO (43D Golfer Lee).

Five-letter -- AMEND (14A. Improve); BARGE (6A. Enter unannounced, with “in”); CACTI (17A. Gila woodpeckers nest in them); COATS (18A. Layers of paint); DESKS (72A. Drawer holders); ELSIE (10D. Elmer the Bull’s mate); ERECT (69A. Standing at attention); ETHEL (15A. Lucy’s friend on “I Love Lucy”); 56D. “I Can‘t Remember If I CRIED” (“American Pie” lyric); ILIAD (70A. Trojan War epic); IONIA (64A. Ancient Aegean region); NURSE (65A. Surgeon’s assistant); ODIUM (5D. Hatred); QUELL (32A. Put down, as an uprising); 30D. RAREE show (carnival attraction); SACKS (45A. Fires); 58D. SONIC the Hedgehog (video game); ZERO G (29A. Astronaut’s work environment, for short).

Short stuff -- ADRY, ALP, AMA and ATA and ATL, ATOM, CUZ, DAT, DELA, EDO, EGG, ENE, FEU, GEL, INTO, INRE, KEG, KPS, LANA, LOS, MAC, MUM, NICK, PDQ, PER, PFC, RHEA, SAG and SAM, SIN, SLOE, SULU, TAO, UAR, UNI, WAC, XES, YOS.

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Remaining clues -- Across: 11. Military mess workers, for short; 16. W.W. II female; 19. ___ croswsr4oads; 23. Rank below cpl.; 25. Not talking; 27. Crème ___ crème; 31. Actress Turner; 34. Not ___ eye in the house; 41. “Gimme ___ ding!”; 44. ___ gin fizz; 49. Memo starter; 54. Perlman of “Cheers”; 57. Crosses (out); 59. ___ McMuffin; 63. Prefix with cycle or sex; 68. ___ City (Las Vegas nickname); 71. “___ Te Ching”. Down: 1. Start of many a Scottish family name; 2. Flu fighters: Abbr.; 4. Call ___ question; 7. Basi building block; 21. Slangy response to “Why?”; 22. Hair goop; 23. Instantly, for short; 24. Fire: Fr.; 28. Matterhorn, e.g.; 33. Part of U.C.L.A.; 40. Former Mideast inits.; 47. Unit of gunpowder; 48. Slump; 50. Cincinnati-to-Pittsburgh dir.; 53. Each; 61. Paper cut, e.g.; 62. Navigator on the Enterprise; 66. Uncle ___; 67. Old Tokyo.