Possible Clues:

• Place where everyone's gone?
• Spooner's brown dress, it's abandoned
• Good landlord won't rent — place now empty
• Abandoned settlement
• Community with spirit, but lacking humanity?
• Abandoned city
• 13 across won't work in soulless place
• Depressed community good entertainer won't upset
• Iditarod, Alaska, for one
• Landlord in centre of Rugby won't fancy an empty place