| CURTAIN | Drape concealing a stage whose fall marks the close of a scene (7) |
| ALICEINWONDERLAND | Fantastic, like the story of one whose fall led to tears and a court appearance? |
| ADAM | Genesiac figure from whose "Fall" humans inherited an innate condition of original sinfulness, according to traditional Christian belief (4) |
| CADENCE | Based on Latin for "to fall", the close of a musical phrase or section; a fall in pitch of the voice at the end of a sentence; or, rhythmic flow (7) |
| EVENING | The close of a day; a word used in the first ever 2 dn |
| YEAREND | What is the close of a 12-month financial period called? (4-3) |
| TITANIA | The Quarrel of Oberon and -; artist Joseph Noel Paton's interpretation of a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream depicting some 165 fairies (7) |
| EVEREST | Relax after the close of the day - it's a high point (7) |
| TABLEAU | --- vivant, a representation of a scene, painting or sculpture by a person or group posed silent and motionless (7) |
| PROSODY | Study of versification's for obnoxious person by the close of Friday (7) |
| SLENDER | Tenuous source of funds after the close of business (7) |
| DIORAMA | Three-dimensional representation of a scene, often prepared as a school project (7) |
| LASTLAP | Close of a swimming race |
| ENDORSE | At the close of play, rose up to back one side (7) |
| ABILENE | Bit of a scene, libation having been knocked over somewhere in Texas (7) |
| VIEWING | Looking at picture of a scene in Germany's capital (7) |
| FINALE | A piece of music closing an act in an opera / the close of a drama |
| TRIASSIC | The first period of the Mesozoic Era. It began 252 million years ago, at the close of the Permian Period. |
| PENURY | Poverty of a writer at the close of the century (6) |
| TABLEAUVIVANT | Representation of a scene by a silent and motionless group of people; French, 'living picture' (7,6) |
