| RAPID | Swift, a ... response |
| FLEET | Dialect for a run of water; a word meaning nimble or swift; a naval force; or, ships collectively (5) |
| SATIRES | Swift's "A Modest Proposal," and others |
| SATIRE | Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g. |
| ATUB | Swift's "A Tale of ___" |
| TRACT | Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g. |
| ESSAY | Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g. |
| CLARKHUNT | Kansas City Chiefs owner who gave Taylor Swift a funny birthday gift at the game on Sunday |
| NOT | "What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do - we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage." Swift, A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (3) |
| FLYING | Swift - doing what it does? (6) |
| ANSWER | A solution to a crossword clue, dilemma or problem, for example; or, a response to a question (6) |
| AYEAYE | Madagascan lemur described by naturalist Gerald Durrell as a "beast with a magic finger"; or, without hyphen, a response at sea (3-3) |
| HMM | Start of a response to a brainteaser |
| REACTION | A response to a situation. |
| REACT | Show a response concerning a deed (5) |
| IFEEL | Start of a response to a doctor |
| REACTED | Read about corrupt A-tec and made a response (7) |
| REACTIVE | Respecting a court, writer's giving a response (8) |
| REFLEXES | Physiological actions performed without conscious thought as a response to a stimulus (8) |
| OEUF | French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch |
