Force download of Office document in a manner that works for anonymous users.

Hello,
We have SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps server. A large portion of our site is accessible by the public. In a couple of places, we have Word documents linked, and we would like the behavior in these spot instances to be to download the file
(i.e., give a "Save As" dialog), rather than to try to open them from the server (resulting in a login challenge).
I'm aware that some use download.aspx in the layouts folder to achieve this, but that doesn't work anonymously. Any other ideas? Bonus points for anything that can be maintained easily by my user base (though not required).

If possible you can use HTML5 'download' attribute, this will open the 'Save As' dialog regardless of file type without taking
you away from the page.
<a href="/document/path" download>Click here to download</a>
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