Possible Clues:

• Not getting down to it as the century is finishing
• Going up when clubs are closing
• How a silk death has one on the up and up
• As the century is drawing to close one is not getting down it
• Getting up to a legal finish
• Silk getting shot, perhaps, and not getting down to it
• The death of counsel may be getting him to heaven
• Getting up to the last of counsel
• You'd be getting a rise out of counsel's death it seems
• It's all up with such a legal finish