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Across
  1. 4. a large burial ground, one not usually in a churchyard.
  2. 6. A ceremony at which someone's body is buried
  3. 7. a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin
  4. 11. a slab of stone set up at the head of a grave
  5. 12. a burial ground, usually beside a church
  6. 13. an inscription on a tombstone.
  7. 16. A notice of death in a newspaper.
  8. 17. a statue or other structure placed over a grave in memory of the dead.
Down
  1. 1. A tribute to someone who has just died.
  2. 2. another word for an Funeral Director
  3. 3. a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger
  4. 5. a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
  5. 8. a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war.
  6. 9. all the material left in the cremator after a cremation
  7. 10. A process of burning to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.
  8. 14. The spot where a body is laid to rest in the ground
  9. 15. a statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event.