A locking arrangement for a row of radial entry blades (62) of a turbo-machine. A closing blade (66) includes a root portion (74) having an axial attachment shape (78) for engagement with an axially oriented slot having an axial attachment shape (76) formed at the entering slot location (34) of the radial entry rotor disk (56). For applications utilizing blades with curved platform faces (112), a preceding blade (108) and a following blade (110) in the row are designed with one curved face for abutting adjacent radial entry blades and one flat face (120) for abutting the flat closing blade faces (116). The closing blade (84) may be designed with a root portion (88) having two legs (90,92) that are urged apart by a key (86) into tight contact with the adjacent blades. A closing blade (62) substantially identical to the radial entry blades may be affixed in the entering slot location with a connecting member (96) that has a radially inner portion (98) having an axial attachment shape and a radially outer portion (100) having a radial attachment shape. A flaw in a perimeter portion of a radial entry rotor disk (56) may be repaired without welding by removing the flaw along with adjoining material to form an axial attachment shape in the rotor disk, and then installing closing blade with a complementary axial attachment shape into the repair location.