Clues for the word "DEATH"
We've had 110 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 245 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 16, 2026.
Definition of death
- v. i. - The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
- v. i. - Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
- v. i. - Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
- v. i. - Cause of loss of life.
- v. i. - Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
- v. i. - Danger of death.
- v. i. - Murder; murderous character.
- v. i. - Loss of spiritual life.
- v. i. - Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Referring Clues
- Ruination
- Finis
- Departure
- Passing
- Browne's "cure of all diseases"
- "___ and the Fool" (Hugo Hofmannsthal play)
- Failure
- "The ___ of General Wolfe" (74-Across painting)
- One of Franklin's two certainties
- ___ Valley (California)
- End
- Theroux's "endless night"
- Along with 23-Down, Benjamin Franklin's two certainties
- Necrophobiac's fear
- John Donne's "___ Be Not Proud"
- The end
- Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra
- "___ Be Not Proud"
- "___ Takes a Holiday" (1934 film)
- "___ Becomes Her" (Hawn/Streep comedy)
- Word in many Agatha Christie titles
- It's as sure as taxes, so they say
- Life partner?
- Done to ___: repeated too often
- One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- "Murder by ___": Neil Simon comedy
- Card in the major arcana
- Fate of Miller's salesman
- "___ in Venice"
- ___ by chocolate (calorie-heavy dessert)
- Point of no return?
- Companion of taxes
- "___ in Venice"
- "Murder by ___": Neil Simon comedy
- Done to ___: repeated too often
- Hated anagram?
- "___ of a Salesman"
- This and taxes are certain
- One of Franklin's certainties
- Word in whodunit titles
- '___ in Venice'
- Tarot card
- Word in many whodunit titles
- Antonius Block's chess opponent
- What the Grim Reaper represents
- ___ and 36-Across (two of life's certainties)
- One of life's certainties
- "___ Becomes Her"
- Donne's "___ Be Not Proud"
- The living end?
- Demise
- ___ by chocolate (popular dessert)
- Riel's sentence
- "The king of terrors," per Job 18
- Word in several Agatha Christie titles
- It's as sure as taxes
- "___ On The Nile"
- "A ___ in the Family"
- Sudden ___ (overtime format)
- "I'm not afraid of ___; I just don't want to be there when it happens": Woody Allen
- It's certain along with taxes, it's said
- Sudden ___
- One of two certainties, to Franklin
- Life's conclusion
- ___ Valley National Park in California
- Sudden ___ (overtime)
- Donne subject
- Opposite of life
- End of life
- Metallica "___ Magnetic"
- Annihilation
- The end - after 13 across, the plague
- Last moment of existence
- The grim reaper
- Uncertain date for introduction to heaven (or alternative)
- Curtains some made at home
- Doctor hated curtains
- Hated (anag)
- Final moments
- Curtains made from hated material
- In homicide, a throttling heralds this
- What Emily Dickinson called "a dialogue between the spirit and the dust"
- Fatality
- Hated (anag) - curtains (informal)
- Destruction
- 7's faith threatened distressed 12
- Decease
- A storybook ending in Venice
- First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie
- Arthur Miller's "___ of a Salesman"
- Tarot card that bears the numeral XIII
- Grim Reaper
- Word before "stare" or "Star"
- One of the Four Horsemen
- Taxes' partner
- Life partner?
- Life's end
- Love to ___ (adore)
- "Murder by ___": 1976 Neil Simon spoof film
- Expiry
- ___ metal: dark '80s-'90s music genre
- U-turn from life
- Per Franklin, a certainty
- Ominous tarot card
- "No more than passing from one room into another," per Helen Keller
- What the Grim Reaper brings
- "Till ___ do us part"
- I_ _ _ _ _at terrifies thanatophobes
- Narrator of "The Book Thief"
- "___ is the most convenient time to tax rich people": David Lloyd George
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 24, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 19, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 05, 2025
- New York Times - July 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 13, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 29, 2024
- And in 215 more crossword puzzles...