Short for "trademark" - Taylor has trademarked her name, her songs and album titles and even her cats' names!
18A
The lights and ______ are blinding
20A
It's a miracle Taylor doesn't catch one of these after performing in the rain
22A
Taylor did this to a man who groped her butt during a photo and was awarded $1 in symbolic damages by a jury
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
24A
The abbreviation for the Communist Party of Nepal, heavily influenced by 53 Across who led the country just north of it
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
27A
I'm ______ seventeen, I don't know anything but I know I love you
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
29A
Where Taylor is down bad crying
32A
____ __ have nice things? No. Because you break them, she had to take them away.
34A
The boy in 65 Across does this to Wendy in “Cardigan” when he tried to change the ending
36A
She thought being left this was romantic on New Romantics but changed her mind by Down Bad
37A
A famous brand of champagne for all of Taylor's problems; literally French for "widow"
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 __ ____
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
42A
She'll be the actress starring in your bad ________
44A
Taylor's most recent album where most of these clues come from, abbreviated
45A
I know it's really a metaphor, but if you didn't, you might thing the song Down Bad was written __ __
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”
48A
Did U C reports that the two men about whom Taylor spilled the T on TTPD _ ___ and Matt?
50A
After Taylor dropped 15 surprise songs at 2am when TTPD came out, people who listened to them all were this the next day
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.
56A
The second and third letters of the twelfth song off TTPD
57A
Taylor sings about the West End of London in London Boy. Now that she's said so long to London, she won't be spending time on this side of London which is directly opposite, and the first word has been abbreviated to its first letter.
58A
...you always have been
59A
How Travis would probably spell the title of this song about him on TTPD
62A
The abbreviation for the British Society of Rheumatology - Taylor may need this after dancing in stilettos for miles for two years
63A
Everyone does this at Taylor when she goes to dinner out in NYC
64A
The initials of the first American woman in space - she could have helped Taylor adjust to her planetary re-entry in Down Bad
65A
Taylor has a song on TTPD about this famous fictional boy who took Taylor’s advice in 111 Across
68A
Who the not-so-disguised song "thanK you aIMee" is really about
72A
Who everyone thought all the songs on TTPD were going to be about...
73A
Blake Lively isn't really Taylor's sister, but if she were then her daughter Betty would be Taylor's _______
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.
75A
After a concert when Taylor is thiiiirsty she drinks a lot of waaaater and then does this
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
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
78A
"End" game. Except the game is Bananagrams so you have to mix those letters up.
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......
82A
She would have ___ such a lovely bride, what a shame she's....
86A
Apparently Matt Healy likes using these and left one at Taylor's apartment
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
94A
Taylor’s eyes may put those Georgia stars to shame, but he’s got Georgia On His Mind
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.
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.
98A
Named with Chloe, Sophia and Marcus in a song on TTPD
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"
100A
... was worth the pain
103A
You’re not Dylan Thomas; otherwise you’d have raged against the dying of this
105A
Meet me in the ____ing rain
107A
When "they" said you need to speak if you want to ruin your crush's wedding
108A
With "The", one of my favorite bands, whose songwriter and guitarist Aaron Dessner co-wrote many songs on TTPD
110A
She took this kind of move-on drug but the effects were temporary
111A
Never _____ __
113A
Easy one - how many days are in a Fortnight?
115A
According to Blank Space, if you have new money, you're probably wearing one of these
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!
117A
How your girlfriend feels when she’s going off about something that you said.
118A
Taylor squeezes your hand three times in the back of these
119A
It never made anybody less gay
Verticales
1D
What Taylor says when her steak is undercooked
3D
How she was to meet you
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)
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...
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
7D
The cat Taylor sings about in the Cats movie; when they reach the scene of crime, he's not there
8D
_ ___ Do It With A Broken Heart
9D
What you should have said instead of saying 31 Down
10D
Only when your girlish ____ flickers just so do they let you know
12D
You wouldn't last an hour in the one she was raised in
13D
The first letter of the title of the first song off 1989?
14D
TTPD is all this and no chorus
15D
What Taylor Swift never had according to the 16th song of TTPD
17D
... who all the songs on TTPD are actually about
19D
When he stands there like a ghost, she'll do this to the door and say "Are you insane?"
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.
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.
30D
The original "Daddy" who was told "But Daddy I love him!"
31D
What you said when you should've said 9 Down
33D
Abbreviation for the album most of these clues are from, ignoring the first word
35D
Acronym for Ohio Valley Summer Theater. In 2005 they performed Cats, the movie version of which Taylor appeared in, creepily
38D
The only vowels used in the title of the first song off Midnights
40D
Jack Antonoff to Taylor Swift
41D
Get it off my ____
43D
The twelfth song of TTPD; the first letter has dual meanings
45D
He only breaks his favorite ones of these
47D
Are we out of these yet? (singular)
49D
Best believe she's still this, just without the first two letters
51D
Track 30 on TTPD, written for and named after Aaron Dessner's child and not, in fact, Batman's crime-fighting ward
52D
The __________ claimed he was a lion; add an M at the end for the third letter of the songs this line is from
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.
54D
If he's written "mine" on your upper thigh only in your mind, then maybe you're guilty __ _____
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?
59D
How much did he think she had in her?
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.
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
63D
Missing him was this color
65D
She'd marry him with these - my favorite song on Lover
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
67D
He can't keep his wild ___s on the road
69D
Taylor can see you waiting down the hall from her because she has this word for excellent vision
70D
It's me! ___! I'm the problem, it's me.
71D
She can do this to him (no really, she can)
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
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.
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???
81D
He had told the patriarch of the last great Amer. dynasty to settle down
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
84D
Where your timeshare is that you work your life away to pay for
85D
I'm in my crossword ___
87D
What Taylor should definitely make Travis sign
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
89D
Speaking of shitstorms back in Texas, this is the organization trying to link Dallas to Houston by high speed transit
91D
The vipers dress in these people's clothing to lecture Taylor about her terrible choice in boyfriends
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
93D
What the crowd is chanting when all the pieces of her shatter
95D
What the speaker in 30 Down uses to comb her hair
101D
The shoes you use to walk all over her peace of mind (sort of)
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
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.
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
109D
The Bolter might need one?
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.
114D
Abbreviation for Environmental Impact. Taylor's private jets have a pretty bad one.