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A Matter of Life and Death

Where there's a will, there's a way to solve.

Solve clues about estate planning, advance directives, and living wills. A thoughtful grid filled with key legal terms and clever wordplay.

By PuzzledCross

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1.Wishes outlined in a legal document
8.Ventilator or feeding tube, for example
9.Kept up-to-date, like a will
10.Subject of a DNR order, perhaps
13.Subject of a long-term care directive
17.Crucially, as in important instructions
18.Indicate a choice, as in a living will
19.Dispatching, as a copy to one's lawyer

Down

2."...___ if I'm in a coma" (living will phrase)
3.The first step in making a plan
4.Amended, like one's last testament
5.For ___ and a day
6.Parties in a legal case
7.Taxes' certain companion
11.Condition, as in 'in no ___ to make decisions'
12.Spares, as a family from a difficult choice
14.___ support, a topic in a living will
15.Like the choices a living will can prevent
16.What an advance directive provides

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