Michael Blake, the Academy Treasurer, is also a crossword constructor with more than a dozen puzzles published in the New York Times. His current obsession is making a crossword variant called a Rows Garden, and he has a subscription service offering weekly Rows Garden puzzles by email.
The Academy will publish one of Michael’s aid-in-dying specific puzzles on a Friday each month, to ease you into your weekends.
In the Medical-in-Dying Word Searches below, scroll to the bottom for the choices, find the words in the puzzle (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or backward), drag your mouse along the lines, and… if you complete it, e-mail us a screenshot of the finished puzzle and Michael will, well, personally congratulate you!
Puzzle #2 (3/7/25) Films about Aid in Dying
All of the hidden entries are movie titles that touch on medical aid in dying. Note that two of the films, A SHORT STAY IN SWITZERLAND and TAKE ME OUT FEET FIRST, are too long to fit in the grid, so they have been chopped into two parts. We hope you enjoy this one!
Puzzle #1 (2/7/25)
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.