Referring Clues

• Senator who wrote "Dreams From My Father"
• "Dreams From My Father" writer
• Presidential hopeful Barack
• Politician who wrote "The Audacity of Hope"
• Future senator who delivered the 2004 Democratic convention keynote address
• Presidential candidate born in Hawaii
• Winner of 2008
• President sworn in on Lincoln's Bible
• "Yes we can" sloganeer
• "The Audacity of Hope" author
• President born on August 4, whose name can be found backward in 17-, 31-, 47- and 63-Across
• Keynoter at the 2004 Democratic Convention
• Senator who wrote "The Audacity of Hope"
• Rival of Clinton
• Senator from Illinois
• Rival of Clinton and Edwards
• Presidential candidate and author of "The Audacity of Hope"
• Surname in 2008 political headlines
• Clinton rival
• Surname on a 2008 ballot
• Stimulus packager?
• "Dreams From My Father" novelist
• November 2008 winner
• The 44th president
• 44th in America
• Time's Man of the Year for 2008
• Biden's 2008 running mate
• 44th U.S. President
• "Dreams From My Father" memoirist
• President with a Grammy
• Illinois's junior senator
• Author of "The Audacity of Hope"
• Author of "Dreams From My Father"
• See 25-Across
• Only president born in Hawaii
• McCain defeater
• November 2008 Senate resignee
• 44th president
• Time's Person of the Year 2008
• McCain beater
• 2004 Democratic keynoter
• Clinton defeater
• He serves the same state as Senator Durbin
• His second book is subtitled "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream"
• McCain's opponent
• 2004 Democratic convention keynoter
• 2008 candidate Barack
• Clinton opponent
• Illinois senator Barack
• Illinois senator Barack ___
• Junior Illinois senator Barack ___
• Illinois senator
• '08 debate regular
• 2008 presidential candidate
• Illinoisan in the news
• Biden boss
• 2009 Peace Nobelist
• Bush successor
• "Dreams From My Father" author
• Clinton's competitor
• Forty-fourth president
• Senator known for hope
• Primary consideration?
• Illinois junior senator
• President who was a Harvard Law Review president
• First president born in Hawaii
• Presidential winner in 2008
• Michelle Robinson, now
• 2009 Peace Prize Nobelist
• President with two Grammys
• First president not born in the continental U.S.
• Biden's boss
• First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y
• Name in the White House
• He defeated McCain
• Controversial 2009 Nobelist
• He bested Clinton in 2008
• President who was a Havard Law Revieew president+
• Appointer of Justice Kagan
• Justice Kagan appointer
• See 50-Down
• Foe of the Tea Party
• U.S. president whose mother's first name was Stanley
• President whose first name means "one who is blessed"
• "Dreams From My Father" author
• Illinois senator Barack ___
• Junior Illinois senator Barack ___
• Illinois pol Barack
• Sen. Barack
• Hawaiian-born President
• Port north of Kyoto
• He really, really wasn't born in Kenya, yeesh
• Two-time Best Spoken Word Album Grammy winner
• See 49-Across
• President who won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
• Noted 1991 Harvard Law grad
• "Dreams of My Father" memoirist
• His mom's first name was Stanley
• 2008 "Yes We Can" sloganeer
• One code-named Renegade by the Secret Service
• President who appointed Kagan to the Supreme Court
• Time's 2008 Person of the Year
• Michelle Robinson's married name
• Clinton's boss
• Malia or Sasha
• Hawaii-born U.S. president
• Successor of Bush
• Senator Barack
• 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote speaker
• Only president to graduate from Columbia University
• One of two presidents with two Ivy League degrees
• President born in Hawaii
• President born in Honolulu
• America's 44th
• Victor of 2008
• Name above Biden on bumper stickers
• Sotomayor's selector
• Sotomayor selector
• Start to care?
• Joe Biden's boss
• Only Indonesian-speaking President
• Quayle : Bush :: Biden : ___
• Illinois senator who became president
• 2012 candidate
• 2009 Peace Prize recipient
• Romney foe
• Sasha or Malia
• Time's Person of the Year for 2008 and 2012
• Harvard Law Review editor who went on to become president
• Time's second African-American Person of the Year
• One of only two presidents with two Ivy League degrees
• President with a Nobel Prize
• President who appointed Sotomayor to the Supreme Court
• Time's 2012 Person of the Year
• Kagan's appointer
• President with a B.A. from Columbia
• Michelle with a "Let's Move" campaign
• "Renegade" with Secret Service protection
• Illinois senator-turned-president
• Half of a winning team in 2012
• President who wrote the 41-Down quote
• 'Yes we can' man
• He defeated Romney
• 2012 victor
• One of two US presidents to win a Nobel Prize and a Grammy award
• 2008 candidate with the slogan "Change we can believe in"
• One of two presidents graduated from Harvard Law School
• Winner of the 2005 and 2007 Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album
• President whose initials "stink"
• First president with a Twitter account
• Only U.S. president born in Hawaii
• 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• Bush's successor
• 'Dreams From My Father' writer
• Romney's 2012 rival
• Romney opponent
• Hawaii-born president
• Top Barry
• 2012 Romney defeater
• Honolulu-born president
• Michelle Robinson's marital surname
• First president born outside the continental U.S.
• First First Lady to announce the Best Picture winner at an Academy Awards ceremony
• 44th president of the U.S.
• Two-time Grammy winner in the White House
• Clinton defeater and appointer
• 44th commander in chief
• Fourth U.S. president to win a Nobel Peace Prize
• 2012 rival of Romney
• Let's Move! campaign launcher Michelle
• Kagan appointer
• First president on Twitter
• Dodd-Frank signer
• "No drama" president
• Lead-in to care since 2009
• President born Aug. 4, 1961
• First lady Michelle
• Sotomayor appointer
• Only U.S. president whose surname is more than 50% vowels
• 2012 winner
• Michelle in the White House
• Only Columbia grad to become President
• Former Illinois senator
• Hawaiian-born head of state
• Appointer of Kagan and Sotomayor
• Honolulu-born leader
• President who once lived in Indonesia
• U.S. leader #44
• 2016 Havana visitor
• President who ended "don't ask, don't tell"
• Two-Grammy president
• World leader whose name shares its last four letters with a state
• One of Ebony's "25 coolest brothers of all time"
• Noted 1983 graduate of Columbia
• He beat Romney
• Only president born outside the continental United States
• President born farthest from D.C.
• Recent White House retiree
• President with a Nobel
• President whose initials were also his dog's name
• Appointer of Sotomayor
• He said "What Washington needs is adult supervision"
• Trump predecessor
• President from 2009-2017
• Appointer of Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court
• Kucinich rival
• See 3-down
• President who's thanked a lot?
• President born in 1961
• Trump's predecessor
• US president born in Hawaii
• It's zero degrees for the man at the top
• One entitled to 9 20 31 if 17 20?
• Born to replace son in terrorist, he's in the White House
• Michelle raised Sam, a boy with some deficiencies
• He'll be leaving home next year with no degrees
• "The Audacity of Hope" writer
• His presidential library is planned for Chicago
• US presidential candidate
• President born in the 1960s
• Keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
• Contender for top American office job, amazingly constrained
• Democrat circle upset a fairy
• Only president born in the 1960s
• President with two Grammys and a Nobel Prize
• His library will be hosted by the University of Chicago
• Sotomayor's appointer
• Bo's master
• President who wrote "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters"
• Former lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
• Onetime Clinton opponent
• 2009 Nobel Prize winner
• Politician at 0^o?
• Zero degrees in the hot seat?
• President Thingamabob, partially recalled
• Presidential hopeful
• President who signed the Affordable Care Act into law
• President between Bush and Trump
• "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" writer
• US president from 2009 to 2017
• US president
• Michelle or Malia
• McCain's 2008 rival
• 2008 rival of Clinton
• Winner of two Grammys and a Nobel Peace Prize
• "44"
• U.S. president with the most southerly birthplace
• First to admire Mr Aneurin Bevan, our revolutionary 5 reformer?
• Clinton and Carter were in his Cabinet
• Bush 43 successor
• President elected with the slogan "Yes we can"
• President with a dog named Bo
• President in 2015
• President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court
• First U.S. president to visit Kenya
• Michelle with the 2018 hit memoir "Becoming"
• "Becoming" writer Michelle
• President with the same first and last name as his father
• Author of Amazon's top book of 2018
• "Becoming" author Michelle
• Author of the 2018 best seller "Becoming"
• 2017 farewell speech maker
• McCain's 2008 opponent
• Barack or Michelle
• Michelle who wrote "Becoming"
• Former First Lady Michelle
• "Becoming" memoirist Michelle
• 2009 Nobel laureate
• President born in the '60s
• Grammy-winning president
• See 10 Down
• Profile in Courage Award recipient (2017)
• Two-time Time magazine Person of the Year
• A skinny kid with a funny name?
• 21st-century president with a Nobel Peace Prize
• "American Grown" author Michelle
• Michelle who led the Let's Move! campaign
• See 28 Down
• Former president who gave a virtual commencement speech in 2020
• "The Michelle ___ Podcast"
• President No. 44
• Let's Move! leader Michelle
• U.S. president who was once president of the Harvard Law Review
• See 1-Down
• Former USO Honorary Chairman
• Sasha and Malia's surname
• "A Promised Land" memoirist
• "I would have voted for ___ for a third term if I could" ("Get Out" line)
• Two presidents ago
• Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across
• Michelle with the best-selling memoir "Becoming"
• 2010s White House family name
• Barack, Michelle, Sasha or Malia
• "A Promised Land" author, 2020
• Who nominated Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court
• "Becoming" memoirist
• With Springsteen, co-host of the podcast "Renegades: Born in the USA"
• Subject of a Kehinde Wiley portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
• With 23-Across, period that began in January 2009
• "Yes we can" sloganeer of 2008
• "Thanks, ___" (catchphrase of the 2010s)
• "The Audacity of Hope" memoirist
• Who said "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues"
• Election victor of 2008 and 2012
• Surname of Bo and Sunny
• Michelle who said, "The future of our world is only as bright as the future of our girls"
• Michelle who said, "Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you"
• With 45-Across, presidential period from 2009-17
• First president born after 1960
• Only U.S. president born in 30-Down
• Start to care?
• "The Light We Carry" writer Michelle
• Barack who was the 44th U.S. president