| REAPER | Personification of death, the Grim - - - (6) |
| ICEMAN | Eugene O'Neill's figure of 'death' (the one who cometh!) (6) |
| YAMANTAKA | In Buddhistic Hinduism, he is one of the dharmapalas known as the "Conqueror of Death," the ferocious aspect of the deity Manjusri, who exiled him to the infernal regions. |
| BECOME | "I am ____ death" (the Bhagavad Gita, quoted by J Robert Oppenheimer) |
| SCYTHE | Tool carried by the Grim Reaper (6) |
| RIDER | Biblical manifestation of death, the Pale ... |
| BOSSES | Enemies like Dracula and the Grim Reaper in the video game "Castlevania," e.g. |
| GROTTO | "The Grim ___" ("A Series of Unfortunate Events" novel set on a submarine) |
| RODIN | Celebrated at a current exhibition at the Grand Palais marking the centenary of his death, the founding father of modern sculpture whose works include The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker (5) |
| HADES | This underworld god is a personification of death whose realm, divided from the land of the living by a terrible river, resembles the Mesopotamian land of the dead. |
| THEGRIMREAPER | Personification of death in the form of skeleton wielding a scythe (3,4,6) |
| GRIMREAPER | The personification of death (4,6) |
| MORS | Personification of death in Roman mythology, counterpart of the Greek Thanatos (4) |
| THANATOS | Personification of death in Greek mythology, counterpart of the Roman Mors (8) |
| GRIM | ___ Reaper (personification of death) |
| REINCARNATION | The belief that after death the soul returns to live another life in a new body |
| DESTROYER | “I am become death, the ____ of worlds” (Bhagavad Gita, quoted by Robert Oppenheimer) |
| CORONER | One investigating death, the first to occur during recess |
| LEVELLER | "Death the ..." (James Shirley) (8) |
| OATES | "Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars." author |
