1) Broadway play 2) Car without brakes 3) Construction 4) Ira Levin play 5) Literary technique 6) Perilous place 7) Play by Ira Levin 8) Play set in Connecticut 9) Positively perilous place 10) Structure 11) Unsafe vehicle 12) Windows game 
[plot device] A deathtrap is a literary and dramatic plot device in which a villain who has captured the hero or another sympathetic character attempts to use an elaborate and usually sadistic method of murdering him/her. It is often used as a means to create dramatic tension in the story and to have the villain reveal important information...
[n] - any structure that is very unsafe
noun any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
a structure, place, or situation where there is imminent risk of death: They escaped from the deathtrap just before it exploded.