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, a weekly email subscription at Rows Garden Puzzles.
The Academy publishes one of Michael’s aid-in-dying specific puzzles on the last Friday of each month, to ease you into your weekend and next month.
Monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle
May 30, 2025
If you’re lounging about on a lovely here-comes-summer day, put on your eye shade and solve our monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle, courtesy of Academy Treasurer (and puzzle genius) Michael Blake.
In the puzzle below, see the expressions at the bottom. Find them in the puzzle (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or backward), and drag your mouse along the lines.
Enjoy our last Friday of the month puzzles!
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
Monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle
April 25, 2025
Spring is here!! (Well, I suppose that depends on where in the country you live.) You should be out smelling the flowers! But if not, or you have hay fever — here’s your final-Friday of the month aid-in-dying word puzzle, thanks to our puzzle maven (and Board member) Michael Blake.
This month’s theme: Books About Aid in Dying. The format has changed, this time a Word Match Challenge (think, painfully, of when you took the SAT exam in high school).
Here’s how it works: Click in a box until you see a dot, then release the click and move the mouse to the associated word in the next column. Click in that box, then release the click and move the mouse to the correct box in the next column and click on that. If you’re correct, the lines will stay. If you’re incorrect, the lines disappear and you get to keep trying.
Enjoy this last-Friday of the month puzzle. Then go smell those flowers.
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
Monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle
March 28, 2025
Another cold/snowy/rainy weekend begins, with vague hints of spring. There’s more to life, folks, than aid-in-dying clinical care — so here’s your end-of-month aid-in-dying word puzzle, thanks to our puzzle maven (and Board member) Michael Blake.
In the puzzle below, search for the expressions at the bottom. To add to the challenge, some, but not all, of these have been broken up. Find the expressions 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!
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
Monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle
Films about Medical Aid in Dying
March 7, 2025
In the Word Search 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!
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!
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.
Monthly Aid-in-Dying Word Puzzle
February 7, 2025
Still puzzled?
See the solutions here.