Another Taylor Swift Puzzle for Hazel (Tortured Poet Edition)

I got a boyfriend, __'s older than us

How old habits die

Not exactly maroon, but close

Short for "trademark" - Taylor has trademarked her name, her songs and album titles and even her cats' names!

The lights and ______ are blinding

It's a miracle Taylor doesn't catch one of these after performing in the rain

Taylor did this to a man who groped her butt during a photo and was awarded $1 in symbolic damages by a jury

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

The abbreviation for the Communist Party of Nepal, heavily influenced by 53 Across who led the country just north of it

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

I'm ______ seventeen, I don't know anything but I know I love you

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

Where Taylor is down bad crying

____ __ have nice things? No. Because you break them, she had to take them away.

The boy in 65 Across does this to Wendy in “Cardigan” when he tried to change the ending

She thought being left this was romantic on New Romantics but changed her mind by Down Bad

A famous brand of champagne for all of Taylor's problems; literally French for "widow"

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 __ ____

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

She'll be the actress starring in your bad ________

Taylor's most recent album where most of these clues come from, abbreviated

I know it's really a metaphor, but if you didn't, you might thing the song Down Bad was written __ __

Travis may know how to ball, but Blondie knows Aristotle. One of his greatest quotes: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting ___ bodies”

Did U C reports that the two men about whom Taylor spilled the T on TTPD _ ___ and Matt?

After Taylor dropped 15 surprise songs at 2am when TTPD came out, people who listened to them all were this the next day

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.

The second and third letters of the twelfth song off TTPD

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.

...you always have been

How Travis would probably spell the title of this song about him on TTPD

The abbreviation for the British Society of Rheumatology - Taylor may need this after dancing in stilettos for miles for two years

Everyone does this at Taylor when she goes to dinner out in NYC

The initials of the first American woman in space - she could have helped Taylor adjust to her planetary re-entry in Down Bad

Taylor has a song on TTPD about this famous fictional boy who took Taylor’s advice in 111 Across

Who the not-so-disguised song "thanK you aIMee" is really about

Who everyone thought all the songs on TTPD were going to be about...

Blake Lively isn't really Taylor's sister, but if she were then her daughter Betty would be Taylor's _______

Taylor wrote Back to December, Come Back Be Here, and I Almost Do. Pablo Neruda wrote “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.

After a concert when Taylor is thiiiirsty she drinks a lot of waaaater and then does this

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

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

"End" game. Except the game is Bananagrams so you have to mix those letters up.

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......

She would have ___ such a lovely bride, what a shame she's....

Apparently Matt Healy likes using these and left one at Taylor's apartment

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

Taylor’s eyes may put those Georgia stars to shame, but he’s got Georgia On His Mind

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.

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.

Named with Chloe, Sophia and Marcus in a song on TTPD

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"

... was worth the pain

You’re not Dylan Thomas; otherwise you’d have raged against the dying of this

Meet me in the ____ing rain

When "they" said you need to speak if you want to ruin your crush's wedding

With "The", one of my favorite bands, whose songwriter and guitarist Aaron Dessner co-wrote many songs on TTPD

She took this kind of move-on drug but the effects were temporary

Never _____ __

Easy one - how many days are in a Fortnight?

According to Blank Space, if you have new money, you're probably wearing one of these

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!

How your girlfriend feels when she’s going off about something that you said.

Taylor squeezes your hand three times in the back of these

It never made anybody less gay

What Taylor says when her steak is undercooked

How she was to meet you

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)

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...

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

The cat Taylor sings about in the Cats movie; when they reach the scene of crime, he's not there

_ ___ Do It With A Broken Heart

What you should have said instead of saying 31 Down

Only when your girlish ____ flickers just so do they let you know

You wouldn't last an hour in the one she was raised in

The first letter of the title of the first song off 1989?

TTPD is all this and no chorus

What Taylor Swift never had according to the 16th song of TTPD

... who all the songs on TTPD are actually about

When he stands there like a ghost, she'll do this to the door and say "Are you insane?"

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.

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.

The original "Daddy" who was told "But Daddy I love him!"

What you said when you should've said 9 Down

Abbreviation for the album most of these clues are from, ignoring the first word

Acronym for Ohio Valley Summer Theater. In 2005 they performed Cats, the movie version of which Taylor appeared in, creepily

The only vowels used in the title of the first song off Midnights

Jack Antonoff to Taylor Swift

Get it off my ____

The twelfth song of TTPD; the first letter has dual meanings

He only breaks his favorite ones of these

Are we out of these yet? (singular)

Best believe she's still this, just without the first two letters

Track 30 on TTPD, written for and named after Aaron Dessner's child and not, in fact, Batman's crime-fighting ward

The __________ claimed he was a lion; add an M at the end for the third letter of the songs this line is from

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.

If he's written "mine" on your upper thigh only in your mind, then maybe you're guilty __ _____

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?

How much did he think she had in her?

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.

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

Missing him was this color

She'd marry him with these - my favorite song on Lover

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

He can't keep his wild ___s on the road

Taylor can see you waiting down the hall from her because she has this word for excellent vision

It's me! ___! I'm the problem, it's me.

She can do this to him (no really, she can)

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

________ 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.

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???

He had told the patriarch of the last great Amer. dynasty to settle down

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

Where your timeshare is that you work your life away to pay for

I'm in my crossword ___

What Taylor should definitely make Travis sign

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

Speaking of shitstorms back in Texas, this is the organization trying to link Dallas to Houston by high speed transit

The vipers dress in these people's clothing to lecture Taylor about her terrible choice in boyfriends

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

What the crowd is chanting when all the pieces of her shatter

What the speaker in 30 Down uses to comb her hair

The shoes you use to walk all over her peace of mind (sort of)

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

"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.

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

The Bolter might need one?

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.

Abbreviation for Environmental Impact. Taylor's private jets have a pretty bad one.