| WEBUILTTHISCITY | Starship song written as a lament against the closure of L.A.'s live music clubs |
| ELEGY | Mournful poem or song shu as a lament for the dead (5) |
| COWS | Nearly 15% of them in the U.S. live in Texas |
| NINE | Number of a cat s lives (4) |
| CDS | Items from 1990s mail- order music clubs |
| ACIDROCK | Music clubs engaged by charity and foundation (4,4) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| RECESS | A cessation of business, such as the closure of Parliament during a vacation (6) |
| IJSSELMEER | Shallow artificial lake in the Netherlands formed from the closure of the Zuiderzee by a dam in 1932 (10) |
| STARK | He came back to Erinsborough in order to protest about the closure of his old school (5,5) |
| BRETT | He came back to Erinsborough in order to protest about the closure of his old school (5,5) |
| TASSERA | From "four", a cube, die or square tablet on which a watchword was written as a token or ticket in classical times; or, a small quadrilateral block/tile for mosaic (7) |
| THETORRENTSOF | ___ Spring Ernest Hemingway novella written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter: 3 wds. |
| LOVIN | "I'm ___ it" (Justin Timberlake song that was written as a McDonald's jingle) |
| LILYMARLENE | Which popular song was written as a poem by a German soldier in WWI? (4,7) |
| DUODECILLION | Number written as a one followed by 39 zeros, also known as a sextilliard (12) |
| TEASE | Drinks to the closure of "Spare Rib" (5) |
| PORTEND | Predict the closure of docks? (7) |
| UNSEAL | Break the closure of |
| DONE | Ode composed about the closure of Man U? (4) |
