Death crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Death” are LAST, LIFE or LOSS, with 4 letters. Below are 29 answers from 3 to 11 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

END 3 letters · noun

a final state “he came to a bad end”

LAST 4 letters · noun

the time at which life ends; continuing until dead “a struggle to the last”

DYING 5 letters · noun

the time when something ends “a dying of old hopes”

DEMISE 6 letters · noun

the time when something ends

DECEASE 7 letters · noun

the event of dying or departure from life “upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren”

EXECUTION 9 letters · noun

putting a condemned person to death

EXPIRATION 10 letters · noun

euphemistic expressions for death

DESTRUCTION 11 letters · noun

a final state

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, LAST, LIFE, LOSS, EXIT, PEST and BANE all fit. The second letter settles most of it: A → LAST, BANE · I → LIFE · O → LOSS · X → EXIT · E → PEST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, DYING, GOING, GRAVE and CURSE all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: Y → DYING · O → GOING · R → GRAVE · U → CURSE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, DEMISE, EXPIRY, KILLER and PLAGUE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: D → DEMISE · E → EXPIRY · K → KILLER · P → PLAGUE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “deaths” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “death” means

• noun: the event of dying or departure from life (“her death came as a terrible shock”)
• noun: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism (“the animal died a painful death”)
• noun: the absence of life or state of being dead (“he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life”)
• noun: the time when something ends (“it was the death of all his plans”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as DEATH, and words whose definition is DEATH. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.