Pre-Q quartet / TUE 8-18-20 / Alanis Morissette song about unfortunate situations / Heroine in Pearl Buck's Good Earth / Balkan land whose capital is Pristina / Grump cat or doge e.g. / Measure fully ratified on 8/18/20

Constructor: Olivia Mitra Framke

Relative difficulty: Easy (2:51) (undersized grid, 14x15)

THEME: AMENDMENT XIX (53A: Measure fully ratified on 8/18/1920) — a puzzle celebrating the 100th anniversary of WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE in the U.S. (34A: Subject of 53-Across):

Additional theme answers:

• ALICE PAUL (17A: Rights advocate who campaigned for 53-Across)
• CONSTITUTION (19A: What 53-Across changed)
• TENNESSEE (56A: 36th state to ratify 53-Across, resulting in its passage)

Word of the Day: ORANGINA (10D: Citrus drink often sold in a pear-shaped bottle) —

Orangina (French pronunciation: ​[ɔʁɑ̃ʒina]) is a lightly carbonated beverage made from carbonated water, 12% citrus juice (10% from concentrated orange, 2% from a combination of concentrated lemon, concentrated mandarin, and concentrated grapefruit juices), as well as 2% orange pulp. Orangina is sweetened with sugar or high fructose corn syrup (glucose fructose) and natural flavors are added.

Orangina was developed by Augustin Trigo Mirallès from Spain in 1933 and was sold to French businessman Léon Beton at a trade fair in Marseille in 1935. Today it is a popular beverage in Europe (especially France and Switzerland), Japan, North Africa, and to a lesser extent in North America.

Since November 2009, Orangina has been owned by Suntory in most of the world. In the United States, the brand has been owned by Keurig Dr Pepper (formerly the Dr Pepper Snapple Group) since 2006. In Canada, the brand is owned by Canada Dry Motts Inc. (wikipedia)

Hey, cool, an anniversary puzzle that actually appears exactly on the anniversary. And it's a milestone that's truly worthy of the tribute. No trickiness or gimmicks here, just straightforward trivia arranged in a symmetrical pattern, but it all works fine. Of course you'd normally refer to the "measure" in question today as the "nineteenth amendment," not AMENDMENT XIX, but the phrase as it appears in the grid is accurate, so I can't really ding it for its non-colloquial quality. Puzzle is undersized (narrow by one column) in order to accommodate the 14-letter central answer. I guess the constructor could've opted for the oversized 16x15 puzzle and stuck with the same answers just fine, but if you can do it in a 14 wide just as well, why not? You get a couple nice longer Downs in the bargain (ORANGINA, MUSTANGS). Actually, FOR KEEPS isn't bad either, and TOXINS and BOX SET both work nicely in the SE. I suppose those X's might've caused trouble, but with KOSOVO that actually ends up being the most interesting corner.