| Finis |
| __ end |
| Sudden |
| Demise |
| Failure |
| Passing |
| Decease |
| Quietus |
| The end |
| Curtains |
| Fatality |
| Ruination |
| Departure |
| Tarot card |
| End of life |
| Hated (anag) |
| Annihilation |
| Kind of blow |
| ___ and taxes |
| Final moments |
| Donne subject |
| Life partner? |
| Hated anagram? |
| Taxes' partner |
| The living end? |
| ___ Becomes Her |
| Riel's sentence |
| ___ Be Not Proud |
| Opposite of life |
| Partner of taxes |
| ''___ in Venice'' |
| Life's conclusion |
| Companion of taxes |
| ___ Valley, Calif. |
| Point of no return? |
| Necrophobiac's fear |
| ''___ of a Salesman'' |
| Mann's "___ in Venice |
| Rider on a pale horse |
| US desert, ... Valley |
| It's as sure as taxes |
| Metallica "___ Magnetic |
| A matter of life and ___ |
| Card in the major arcana |
| Theroux's "endless night |
| Donne's "__ Be Not Proud |
| One of the Four Horsemen |
| Bubonic plague, Black ... |
| One of life's certainties |
| Fate of Miller's salesman |
| This and taxes are certain |
| Sudden ___ (overtime format) |
| Word in many whodunit titles |
| One of Franklin's certainties |
| Browne's "cure of all diseases |
| Done to __: repeated too often |
| John Donne's "___ Be Not Proud |
| Free climbers knowingly risk it |
| Thomas Mann's ____ in Venice |
| What the Grim Reaper represents |
| What the Grim Reaper symbolizes |
| ___ in the Afternoon": Hemingway |
| Murder by __": Neil Simon comedy |
| The king of terrors," per Job 18 |
| ___ Cab for Cutie (alt-rock band) |
| One of Franklin's two certainties |
| ___ by chocolate (popular dessert) |
| Arthur Miller's "___ of a Salesman |
| It's as sure as taxes, so they say |
| One of two certainties, to Franklin |
| Word in many Agatha Christie titles |
| Hated (anag) — curtains (informal) |
| ___ Becomes Her" (Hawn/Streep comedy) |
| Tarot card that bears the numeral XIII |
| Word in several Agatha Christie titles |
| ___ of a Salesman" (Arthur Miller play) |
| It's certain along with taxes, it's said |
| ___ by chocolate (calorie-heavy dessert) |
| One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| The last thing to happen to you (spoiler alert!!!) |
| Because I could not stop for ___" (Emily Dickinson poem) |
| First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie |
| Tarot card often interpreted as a positive sign, ironically |
| What Emily Dickinson called "a dialogue between the spirit and the dust |
| Its stroke is "as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired," per Cleopatra |
| I'm not afraid of __; I just don't want to be there when it happens": Woody Allen |