A Crossword Made For Dying

3. I felt struck by the ________ of it all. The dust which had settle on top of antique cabinets.
7. Soon no one left could name these _____
9. Or focused on that they controlled, and sit and solve a crossword
12. As the stars yawned up before them, had they found _______ in the obsolete
14. Sue was born on New Year's Day, and every year her birthday was welcomed with drinks, a party, the popping of champagne and the next morning: a head-splitting ______.
15. The way I too would become like these people standing smiling, black and _____ in photo albums.

1. How do you show that she was a summer, a dancer, a sister and a ______?
2. It was just a day in September when she died. Nothing special. No streamers, no bouncing music, no countdown. Just me, my Dad and Granny in a room. We held her hand and talked to her until she fell ______.
4. In the days that followed, we picked out photos for her funeral. Her life was splayed before me, bound in glossy pages of photo ______.
5. Or wrung the _____ of hens?
6. How do you encapsulate a life in only 20 ___________?
8. Had they left their fate to ___?
10. Had they slipped saucers of milk to mewling farm ____,
11. Say who that soul had _____, kissed in half lit rooms.
13. Could say what their favourite bird was. Whether the wood pigeon has _____ in the trees the way it did now.