Across
- 5. – A gathering where absence speaks louder than voices
- 6. – The vessel left behind when spirit takes its leave
- 7. – Day’s final bow before night ascends
- 9. – When the world lets go of color, preparing for dormancy
- 14. – Monumental sleep for those who will not awaken
- 16. – The mind’s shadowed whisper about what’s to come
- 19. – Where life rises and returns after its stage is finished
- 21. – The inevitable collector who accepts no excuses
- 22. – Nature’s quiet method of turning endings into beginnings
- 23. – Life’s return ticket in an unfamiliar form
- 24. – Belief without the convenience of certainty
- 25. – Crossing thresholds that admit no return
Down
- 1. – Fear given a name for the unavoidable
- 2. – Monumental sleep for those who will not awaken
- 3. – Earth’s pause button for the final act of life
- 4. – Stillness that carries the weight of completion
- 8. – Nightly rehearsal of mortality, minus the permanent exit
- 10. – The art of changing shape while retaining essence
- 11. – The resolve to stand unshaken before the inevitable
- 12. – Earth’s pause button for the final act of life
- 13. – The grand theater in which all life and death play their parts
- 15. – The visible echo left by someone’s departure
- 17. – Silence that does not demand attention, yet commands respect
- 18. – The sequel some claim exists beyond the mortal narrative
- 20. – A remembered perfection, more imagined than real
- 25. – The stage upon which all life and death perform