Answer: DEATH
DEATH is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 78 times.
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
 - First word in titles by Arthur Miller and Agatha Christie
 - Tarot card that bears the numeral XIII
 - Word before "stare" or "Star"
 - Taxes' partner
 - Love to ___ (adore)
 - "Murder by ___": 1976 Neil Simon spoof film
 - ___ metal: dark '80s-'90s music genre
 - "___ Comes to Pemberley": P.D. James novel
 - "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
 - ___ Valley, California
 - Narrator of "The Book Thief"
 - "___ is the most convenient time to tax rich people": David Lloyd George
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - July 18, 2025
 - LA Times - February 16, 2025
 - LA Times - October 15, 2024
 - New York Times - August 28, 2024
 - LA Times - July 08, 2024
 - New York Times - July 03, 2023
 - New York Times - April 21, 2023
 - LA Times - June 03, 2022
 - LA Times - February 15, 2022
 - LA Times - October 31, 2021
 - LA Times - March 17, 2021
 - Universal - March 11, 2021
 - Universal - September 04, 2020
 - Universal - January 02, 2020
 - Universal - November 02, 2019
 - New York Times - May 25, 2019
 - LA Times - January 10, 2019
 - LA Times - July 07, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 03, 2018
 - Canadiana - October 23, 2017
 
Seen a clue for the answer death that we don't have? Then please submit it to us so we can make the clue database even better!