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What Taylor says when her steak is undercooked
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Across
  1. 2A
    I got a boyfriend, __'s older than us
  2. 4A
    How old habits die
  3. 11A
    Not exactly maroon, but close
  4. 16A
    Short for "trademark" - Taylor has trademarked her name, her songs and album titles and even her cats' names!
  5. 18A
    The lights and ______ are blinding
  6. 20A
    It's a miracle Taylor doesn't catch one of these after performing in the rain
  7. 22A
    Taylor did this to a man who groped her butt during a photo and was awarded $1 in symbolic damages by a jury
  8. 23A
    This state in the Pacific Northwest includes the city of Spokane which benefitted from the Klondike Gold Rush and is the (surprising) location of Coney Island Park - no connection to Tracks 3 and 9 on Evermore
  9. 24A
    The abbreviation for the Communist Party of Nepal, heavily influenced by 53 Across who led the country just north of it
  10. 25A
    Taylor is apparently legitimately friends with Paul McCartney - this is the name of the British record label that famously turned down the Beatles (big mistake; huge). Rhymes with the name of the character played by Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect - they sang We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together in a sing-off
  11. 27A
    I'm ______ seventeen, I don't know anything but I know I love you
  12. 28A
    The summer of 2023 was called the Girl Power summer, due to Taylor's Eras Tour, and a certain record-breaking movie starring an actor with these initials as Just Ken
  13. 29A
    Where Taylor is down bad crying
  14. 32A
    ____ __ have nice things? No. Because you break them, she had to take them away.
  15. 34A
    The boy in 65 Across does this to Wendy in “Cardigan” when he tried to change the ending
  16. 36A
    She thought being left this was romantic on New Romantics but changed her mind by Down Bad
  17. 37A
    A famous brand of champagne for all of Taylor's problems; literally French for "widow"
  18. 39A
    If Taylor played a concert in 1960 in Cairo, during the brief existence of the United Arab States (a confederation of Egypt, Syria and Yemen) she would be playing __ ____
  19. 40A
    If Taylor's California mansion really did burn to the ground like the Lover house during the Eras Tour, then she may need to contact that state's Department of Insurance, denoted by this three-letter acronym
  20. 42A
    She'll be the actress starring in your bad ________
  21. 44A
    Taylor's most recent album where most of these clues come from, abbreviated
  22. 45A
    I know it's really a metaphor, but if you didn't, you might thing the song Down Bad was written __ __
  23. 46A
    Travis may know how to ball, but Blondie knows Aristotle. One of his greatest quotes: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting ___ bodies”
  24. 48A
    Did U C reports that the two men about whom Taylor spilled the T on TTPD _ ___ and Matt?
  25. 50A
    After Taylor dropped 15 surprise songs at 2am when TTPD came out, people who listened to them all were this the next day
  26. 53A
    Taylor is the Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department. He was the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and enjoyed a moderately smaller cult of personality.
  27. 56A
    The second and third letters of the twelfth song off TTPD
  28. 57A
    T. Swift sang about the W. End of London in London Boy. Now that she's said So Long London, she won't be visiting this historically working class side of London which is directly across town.
  29. 58A
    ...you always have been
  30. 59A
    How Travis would probably spell the title of this song about him on TTPD
  31. 62A
    The abbreviation for the British Society of Rheumatology - Taylor may need this after dancing in stilettos for miles for two years
  32. 63A
    Everyone does this at Taylor when she goes to dinner out in NYC
  33. 64A
    The initials of the first American woman in space - she could have helped Taylor adjust to her planetary re-entry in Down Bad
  34. 65A
    Taylor has a song on TTPD about this famous fictional boy who took Taylor’s advice in 111 Across
  35. 68A
    Who the not-so-disguised song "thanK you aIMee" is really about
  36. 72A
    Who everyone thought all the songs on TTPD were going to be about...
  37. 73A
    Blake Lively isn't really Taylor's sister, but if she were then her daughter Betty would be Taylor's _______
  38. 74A
    Taylor opens her short film for All Too Well with a quote from Pablo Neruda: “Love is short but forgetting is so long.” The Chilean poet is from Valparaiso, a town that shares its name with a town in this midwestern state.
  39. 75A
    After a concert when Taylor is thiiiirsty she drinks a lot of waaaater and then does this
  40. 76A
    The first three three-letter words in the question that Matt Healy's mom asks him after listening to TTPD: "___ ___ ___ Taylor has been writing all these sad songs?" But you have to spell the words as letters like you're lazily texting or you're Prince
  41. 77A
    Last name of the 70's female singer whose hair and lips are referenced in the 16th song on TTPD, except you have to replace the last three letters of her last name with one letter that makes the same sound
  42. 78A
    "End" game. Except the game is Bananagrams so you have to mix those letters up.
  43. 79A
    To "lengthen a speech, piece of writing, etc. with unnecessary material." A clue that is in no way related to Taylor's 31-song double album......
  44. 82A
    She would have ___ such a lovely bride, what a shame she's....
  45. 86A
    Apparently Matt Healy likes using these and left one at Taylor's apartment
  46. 90A
    Matt Healy's mom is a pretty famous British TV actress. When she is meeting him at a busy restaurant and she can't find him, he stands up and raises his hand and shouts this over the crowd
  47. 94A
    Taylor’s eyes may put those Georgia stars to shame, but he’s got Georgia On His Mind
  48. 96A
    The reason that Taylor is waiting for trains that just aren't coming is because in 1937, Congress passed the Railroad Retirement Act encouraging older rail workers to retire and take pensions. This clue is the acronym for that law.
  49. 97A
    Loose lips sink ships all the damn time. At least that's what they say at the Yachting Club of America, the acronym for which is the answer to this one.
  50. 98A
    Named with Chloe, Sophia and Marcus in a song on TTPD
  51. 99A
    This two-letter word mostly used in the Bible occurs twice in the title "So Long London" and three times in the phrase "So Long London by Taylor Swift"
  52. 100A
    ... was worth the pain
  53. 103A
    You’re not Dylan Thomas; otherwise you’d have raged against the dying of this
  54. 105A
    Meet me in the ____ing rain
  55. 107A
    When "they" said you need to speak if you want to ruin your crush's wedding
  56. 108A
    With "The", one of my favorite bands, whose songwriter and guitarist Aaron Dessner co-wrote many songs on TTPD
  57. 110A
    She took this kind of move-on drug but the effects were temporary
  58. 111A
    Never _____ __
  59. 113A
    Easy one - how many days are in a Fortnight?
  60. 115A
    According to Blank Space, if you have new money, you're probably wearing one of these
  61. 116A
    Hang on tight for this one: The 16th track on TTPD (which may be my favorite since I've certainly referred to it the most in this puzzle) is about a silent film star who had a famous nickname derived from her starring in a movie that shares its name with a coulrophobic novel by a famous horror writer who has these initials. Whew!
  62. 117A
    How your girlfriend feels when she’s going off about something that you said.
  63. 118A
    Taylor squeezes your hand three times in the back of these
  64. 119A
    It never made anybody less gay
Down
  1. 1D
    What Taylor says when her steak is undercooked
  2. 3D
    How she was to meet you
  3. 4D
    She's running with her dress unbuttoned screaming "But _____ I love him!" But of course on the song, she doesn't scream the word, she does this to it (serenade, croon, chant, vocalize)
  4. 5D
    The initials of the Clifton Suspension bridge in Bristol, UK that was built in 1864 and spans 1,352 feet across the River Avon. Also the initials of the second song off Lover that opens the Eras Tour set list, speaking of terrific bridges...
  5. 6D
    If you’re not feeling all too well, you might want to consult Taylor’s fourth album which could be given this nickname for its proven medical benefits
  6. 7D
    The cat Taylor sings about in the Cats movie; when they reach the scene of crime, he's not there
  7. 8D
    _ ___ Do It With A Broken Heart
  8. 9D
    What you should have said instead of saying 31 Down
  9. 10D
    Only when your girlish ____ flickers just so do they let you know
  10. 12D
    You wouldn't last an hour in the one she was raised in
  11. 13D
    The first letter of the title of the first song off 1989?
  12. 14D
    TTPD is all this and no chorus
  13. 15D
    What Taylor Swift never had according to the 16th song of TTPD
  14. 17D
    ... who all the songs on TTPD are actually about
  15. 19D
    When he stands there like a ghost, she'll do this to the door and say "Are you insane?"
  16. 21D
    According to the Sony music catalog, Taylor penned an unreleased song called “Scream.” This is what is printed right next to where you punch your ballot to elect the star of the Scream movies running as the democratic congressional candidate.
  17. 26D
    The standard edition of TTPD (not the Anthology - just the first 16 tracks) and 1989 both end with songs that begin with this letter. Put it here twice since it ends two albums.
  18. 30D
    The original "Daddy" who was told "But Daddy I love him!"
  19. 31D
    What you said when you should've said 9 Down
  20. 33D
    Abbreviation for the album most of these clues are from, ignoring the first word
  21. 35D
    Acronym for Ohio Valley Summer Theater. In 2005 they performed Cats, the movie version of which Taylor appeared in, creepily
  22. 38D
    The only vowels used in the title of the first song off Midnights
  23. 40D
    Jack Antonoff to Taylor Swift
  24. 41D
    Get it off my ____
  25. 43D
    The twelfth song of TTPD; the first letter has dual meanings
  26. 45D
    He only breaks his favorite ones of these
  27. 47D
    Are we out of these yet? (singular)
  28. 49D
    Best believe she's still this, just without the first two letters
  29. 51D
    Track 30 on TTPD, written for and named after Aaron Dessner's child and not, in fact, Batman's crime-fighting ward
  30. 52D
    The __________ claimed he was a lion; add an M at the end for the third letter of the songs this line is from
  31. 53D
    Taylor sings "I love my hometown as much as Motown" (London Boy) and "Move to me like I'm a Motown beat" (King of My Heart). Motown Records is associated with Detroit, the biggest city in this state.
  32. 54D
    If he's written "mine" on your upper thigh only in your mind, then maybe you're guilty __ _____
  33. 55D
    A delicious plant with edible green seed pods that is often fried in the South. Maybe Taylor gets it at Arnold's Country Kitchen when she's in Nashville?
  34. 59D
    How much did he think she had in her?
  35. 60D
    Taylor famously dated Bobby Kennedy's grandson, Connor Kennedy. After the assassination of JFK - Connor's great-uncle - the Harvard school of public policy was renamed the Harvard Kennedy School. These are the initials on its t-shirts.
  36. 61D
    If you love like that, blood ____ cold!! Except you have to scramble it to mean jars you put cremated human remains in - after all, they're burning all the witches even if you aren't one
  37. 63D
    Missing him was this color
  38. 65D
    She'd marry him with these - my favorite song on Lover
  39. 66D
    I don't know about you, but this is how I'm feeling about the number of Eras Tour dates scheduled in countries that were under Nazi rule when the US entered the war
  40. 67D
    He can't keep his wild ___s on the road
  41. 69D
    Taylor can see you waiting down the hall from her because she has this word for excellent vision
  42. 70D
    It's me! ___! I'm the problem, it's me.
  43. 71D
    She can do this to him (no really, she can)
  44. 77D
    Cool battle-hardened nickname for the country where America started a disastrous war; we finally pulled out in the year that shares its name with Matt Healy's band
  45. 79D
    ________ we got lost in translation, _______ I asked for too much, but _______ this thing was a masterpiece till you tore it all up. The answer is NOT the word in the blanks, but a common synonym for the word in the blanks.
  46. 80D
    In Tolerate It, this is what Taylor is doing by the door like a little kid. You have to put an 'A' in front of it - but it means the exact same thing. Why do we even need both words???
  47. 81D
    He had told the patriarch of the last great Amer. dynasty to settle down
  48. 83D
    Love Story is based on a story of two lovers kept apart by their parents written by the most famous playwright of all time whose wife had these initials and the exact same name as one of my favorite actresses who, in a further coincidence, is married to a man with my exact name
  49. 84D
    Where your timeshare is that you work your life away to pay for
  50. 85D
    I'm in my crossword ___
  51. 87D
    What Taylor should definitely make Travis sign
  52. 88D
    What you get if you combine an oblong French pastry filled with creme and the silent film star referenced in the 16th song of TTPD
  53. 89D
    Speaking of shitstorms back in Texas, this is the organization trying to link Dallas to Houston by high speed transit
  54. 91D
    The vipers dress in these people's clothing to lecture Taylor about her terrible choice in boyfriends
  55. 92D
    A cool new Gen Z slang term for what you call someone who is convinced Taylor is sending secret signals about when Reputation (Taylor's Version) will drop through complex numerology involving Kelce's jersey number and how many trees she is posing in front of in photo shoots. Oh and also, you have to spell this one backwards just to really lean into the crazy conspiracy theory vibe
  56. 93D
    What the crowd is chanting when all the pieces of her shatter
  57. 95D
    What the speaker in 30 Down uses to comb her hair
  58. 101D
    The shoes you use to walk all over her peace of mind (sort of)
  59. 102D
    The song Enchanted is supposed to be about Adam Young, the lead singer of a band named after a City populated by nocturnal predatory birds who can turn their heads all the way around and make this sound
  60. 104D
    "Little did you know your _____ really only the town you'll get arrested" Except remove the 'O' because if Florence can leave out the "in" from the end of that sentence then I guess there just are no rules at all.
  61. 106D
    The acronym for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs - they were probably involved somehow when Congress investigated Ticketmaster after Swifties complained about ticket prices
  62. 109D
    The Bolter might need one?
  63. 112D
    Walter Ulbricht was the leader of the East German Communist Party. He was photographed at Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday party with 53 Across. He left Germany when a famous German with the initials in 83 Down came to power. Anyway, these are his initials.
  64. 114D
    Abbreviation for Environmental Impact. Taylor's private jets have a pretty bad one.
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