Happy Birthday, My Love

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Across
  1. 3. How I make your favorite dishes
  2. 4. Small prizes that can’t ever go missing
  3. 5. The scenic feature our Airbnb failed to advertise, twice
  4. 8. Interior decorator’s nightmare, comedian’s dream
  5. 9. My not so secret love language
  6. 11. Devoured only once they’ve lost their crunch
  7. 12. The sexiest feature of your ride
  8. 15. Loved in the kitchen, less so in the bedroom
  9. 17. I led the way, you froze me out
  10. 18. I’m following your swing
  11. 19. Now your liquid gold of choice, savored like a true connoisseur
  12. 20. Bold choices below the belt
  13. 23. I could’ve said sooner, but now I mean with my whole heart
  14. 24. Five minutes after dinner: the hunt begins
  15. 25. Shared oddities that make roommates impossible but us perfect
  16. 26. Fifteen years of thirst, stored in the cloud
  17. 28. I used to ignore them, now I plan my nights around them
  18. 30. Childhood classic turned adult necessity
  19. 32. Timeless companions on every drive
  20. 33. Rubicon-accessed route with a name that says to veer
  21. 34. Simple morning joy – until someone gets too into it
  22. 36. Root cause of our first standoff
  23. 37. Absent when love began, a sign of change
Down
  1. 1. Never more than an arm’s length away
  2. 2. Where things got hot – and looked even hotter
  3. 6. The most borrowed item in the house
  4. 7. Capturing candid moments like the sweetest secret stalker
  5. 10. The date I stopped pretending I wasn’t already yours
  6. 13. Where time stops, tans deepen, and tiny swimwear reigns
  7. 14. Where things started to lift off
  8. 16. Once his fortress, now my domain
  9. 21. So loyal, we might as well be sponsored
  10. 22. Learning chess one text at a time
  11. 27. We excel in everything, or at least we pretend
  12. 29. The snack that converted me forever
  13. 31. Apparently, 90% fatal, per pre-paddle propaganda
  14. 35. Started as a favor, now he’s the morning’s MVP