| HENCE | Is inside, when cell door closes from now on (5) |
| MADEABOLTFORIT | What imprisoned blacksmith did when cell door wouldn't lock? (4,1,4,3,2) |
| OPENS | One door closes, another door ___, saying (5) |
| SCARCE | Hardly a mark left when cell is halved (6) |
| IMHOME | Words after a door closes, perhaps |
| THEENDISJUST | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| NEARS | Gets close from one arsenal (5) |
| BONDS | Investments for M's men? Amazon will select them from now on (5) |
| AFTER | In a word, from now on, it could be heaven or hell... (9) |
| MILES | Judy Garland suggested, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas; Make the Yuletide gay; From now on, |
| ESCAPE | Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it |
| GAMETE | Cell door confines me (6) |
| MAKEABOLTFORIT | What a screw might do with a broken cell door -- or an inmate? (4,1,4,3,2) |
| IRONBAR | Cell-door component |
| ZOOMIN | Get up close from far away |
| ATTACKS | Sci-fi comedy movie with Glenn Close from 1996, Mars -------! (7) |
| OVERNIGHT | Open round close from dusk to dawn (9) |
| SHUT | ___ the door (close) |
| ZIP | Close from the back, maybe |
| HENCEFORTH | One laying on odd crew members on river from now on |
