| RUDKIN | David -, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| EDGAR | David, playwright whose works include Maydays and Pentecost (5) |
| RUBENS | Painter of princes, hunts, battles, nudes, mythological and religious scenes - his works include Venus and Adonis, The Tiger Hunt, The Great Last Judgement and The Triumph of Henry IV (6) |
| JOHN | And 21 The sixth President of the US and the son of the second US President (4,6,5) |
| QUINCYADAMS | The sixth President of the US and the son of the second US President (4,6,5) |
| MANTEGNA | Andrea, Italian artist whose works include the nine-painting series The Triumph Of Caesar (8) |
| JAMES | Two of the apostles of Jesus; a son of Zebedee and the son of Alphaeus (Matthew 10:2) (5) |
| NUSSBAUM | Felix ?, German painter whose works include 1944's Triumph of Death |
| XOLOTL | Quetzalcoatl was the symbol of death and resurrection. With his companion, a dog-headed god, he was said to have descended to the underground hell of Mictlan to gather the bones of the ancient dead. |
| ARA | "And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and ___" ( |
| SIMBA | Protagonist of the 1994 film The Lion King, and the son of Mufasa. This word means 'lion' in Swahili. |
| MICHAELEAST | English composer whose madrigal Hence, stars, too dim of light is in The Triumphs of Oriana (7,4) |
| WHITENOISE | Don DeLillo novel whose original dust jacket touted it as "a brilliant story about death and the fear of death . . . a comedy, of course" |
| YAMA | Hindu god of death and ruler of the underworld, also known as Kala and Dharmaraja (4) |
| PLEMONS | Jesse _, star of TV series Love & Death and The Power of the Dog (7) |
| MAMET | David -, playwright whose Glengarry Glen Ross won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 |
| SUTER | Current Stars D-man and the son of a late 'Miracle on Ice' member |
| DAS | "___ Kapital" (Marx work that predicts the triumph of socialism) |
| ETTY | English artist who painted The Triumph of Cleopatra in 1821 (4) |
| FIDELIO | Beethoven opera originally titled Leonore, or the Triumph of Marital Love |
