Possible Clues:

• What the Grim Reaper represents
• Its stroke is 'as a lover's pinch, which hurts, and is desired,' per Cleopatra
• Card in the major arcana
• Snow job, intended to obfuscate
• Distribute; wood
• The end - after 13 across, the plague
• SECOND PART OF 17
• Last moment of existence
• Just some snide atheists, in the end
• ___ Valley National Park in California