Advances in age and death's all over the place (4,5)

I believe the answer is:

gets ahead

'advances' is the definition.
('get ahead' can be a synonym of 'advance')

'age and death's all over the place' is the wordplay.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'all over the place' indicates an anagram.
'age' put after 'deaths' is 'deathsage'.
'deathsage' is an anagram of 'GETS AHEAD'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for gets ahead that I've seen is " Takes the lead".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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