| CLAUSTROPHOBIC | Uncomfortably closed in (14) |
| GREENHAMCOMMON | Former RAF base near Newbury, closed in 1992 |
| OTBS | Wagering sites that closed in N.Y.C. in 2010, in brief |
| LEGAVROCHE | Fine dining restaurant in Mayfair, opened in 1967 by Michel and Albert Roux, that closed in January (2,8) |
| ASTORIA | Former music venue in London's Charing Cross Road that opened as a cinema in 1927 and closed in 2009 |
| EDS | Honest ___ (Legendary store that closed in Toronto in 2016) |
| GREENHAM | Common, RAF base in Berkshire that was closed in 1992 (8) |
| CONSETT | Town in County Durham whose steelworks closed in 1980 (7) |
| MOUNTKEMBLA | Illawarra colliery established in 1883 and closed in 1970 (5,6) |
| RECIFE | City closed in by raging fire - this one in Brazil? |
| JERSEY | Island where railway opened in 1870 connecting St Helier and St Aubin, and closed in 1936 (6) |
| EASTINDIA | London's ____ docks opened in 1806 and closed in 1967 |
| COWES | Island station opened in 1862 and closed in 1966 (5) |
| PRION | Risk to health in jail -closed-in society unwanted (5) |
| AANDP | Grocery chain that closed in 2015 after 156 years in business |
| ALCATRAZ | U.S. prison on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay that closed in 1963 (8) |
| GARDENA | Val _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Railway - narrow gauge railway in the Dolomites that closed in 1960 (7) |
| MOSS | - - - Finn, Ireland wing of 1980s whose sports shop in Cork closed in 2020 (4) |
| LONGANNET | Last coal-fired power station in Scotland, closed in 2016 (9) |
| ARLESEY | East Coast Main Line station north of Hitchin, closed in 1959 and reopened in 1988 (7) |
