| ACREAGE | Area of land about to be seen in a confined space (7) |
| ISLE | Area of land, about 10 miles by 4 miles, off the north coast of Kent (4,2,7) |
| OFSHEPPEY | Area of land, about 10 miles by 4 miles, off the north coast of Kent (4,2,7) |
| DEFENCE | Barrier for low land about to be covered by river (7) |
| ORANGETREE | Old grazing land about to penetrate edges of the orchard feature |
| SQUEEZE | Crush of people in a confined space (7) |
| INAWELL | Is in a confined space, kept inside (2,1,4) |
| HENCOOP | Females only shop in a confined space (3-4) |
| DOORWAY | Portal represented 20 times in this puzzle that lets you in and out of a confined space (Note: These special letters, reading left to right, row by row, will produce an apt four-word phrase) |
| ALCOPOP | Adult left piano in a confined place ___ it's harder than it looks (7) |
| COOP | Love shown to a policeman in a confined space |
| INTERNEE | Change in rent seen essentially for one in a confined space? (8) |
| CORRECT | Ringleader about to be seen in county court? That's right |
| CRAMP | To put in a confined space will produce muscular pain (5) |
| REACTOR | Nuclear apparatus about to be seen by performer |
| CAGED | Caught mature daughter in a confined space? (5) |
| SPENT | Soprano in a confined space is exhausted (5) |
| CLAUSTROPHOBIC | Feeling dread when enclosed in a confined space (14) |
| COOPED | ___ up: kept in a confined space ? (6) |
| JAMMED | Played music in a confined space (6) |
