Clues for the word "DAWN"
We've had 121 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 318 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 10, 2026.
Definition of dawn
- v. i. - To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
- v. i. - To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
- n. - The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
- n. - First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Referring Clues
- It breaks every day
- Time to crow
- First light
- Arise
- Sunrise
- Sunup
- It begins as a crack
- Eos' domain
- Time for crowing
- Common time to start on a trip
- *Beginning
- Setting of the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
- Start time for many a military mission
- Sunrise time
- End of the night
- Break of day
- Aurora's realm
- When the rooster crows
- Daybreak
- Morning time
- Beginning of the day
- Bedtime for 41-Down
- Vampire's curfew
- Joy alternative
- Beginning
- Time to get cracking?
- "____ of the Dead" (2004 horror film)
- Become clear to, with "on"
- Dracula's bedtime
- Crowing time
- Start of the day
- Advent
- Lestat's curfew
- Sunrise's synonym
- Time for a wake-up call, perhaps
- Earliest period
- They were behind Tony Orlando
- It breaks each day
- Tony Orlando and ___ ("Knock Three Times" group)
- Early light
- "Rosy-fingered" time of day, per Homer
- Upcoming event?
- Eastern sight
- Curfew for Dracula
- Night follower
- Natural alarm clock
- Occur to, with "on"
- Onset
- Early morning
- Vampire's bedtime
- Cockcrow
- The edge of night
- Dish soap brand
- The break of day
- Curfew for a vampire
- Rooster's cue
- Dracula's curfew
- Light before sunup
- Opposite of dusk
- Eastern site
- Homer's "rosy-fingered" time
- First light of day
- Day's first light
- First appearance of daylight
- Girl seen at daybreak
- Night Ranger "___ Patrol"
- Night Ranger album "___ Patrol"
- Tanya Tucker "Delta ___"
- Early morning sing-song?
- Bird takes direction at first light
- Aurora, that early bird
- The early bird?
- Her day starts early
- It breaks and breaks around the West
- Desperate fellow going out with Aurora
- Chorus girl?
- See 2
- Aurora
- Become apparent to, ___ on
- Bristle on Dad's face - time to shave it off?
- Early rise in the East and set around West
- French lady seen early in the day
- Waved wand at sunrise
- Four Seasons hit
- When a rooster crows
- When roosters crow
- When some start the day
- When roosters get loud
- Start after Elizabeth (but before the French?) on TV
- When crepuscular animals are active
- Rooster's wake-up time
- She won't leave us in the dark
- Comedian, actor and writer who played the vicar of Dibley
- Occasion for crowing?
- Woman waving a wand
- It's early to rise for a chap out West
- Starting time for an attack
- Common duel setting
- French, perhaps, at an early time
- Joy alternative, in the kitchen
- Wonderful wand bringing light
- Early light time
- ___ Butler, Labour MP for Brent Central
- Time to crow?
- A bright start in French, perhaps
- First book of Octavia Butler's "Lilith's Brood" series
- Start
- Dusk counterpart
- Basketball great Staley
- Dusk's opposite
- When a duel may be scheduled
- It's shortest at the Equator
- Start of a new day or era
- The early bird?
- Early bird?
- Opposite of 30-Across
- Dishwashing brand used to clean animals after oil spills
- Dan's out West with a woman
- ___ chorus (singing of birds at sunrise)
- "Rosy-fingered" time of day in the "Odyssey"
- From ___ to dusk
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 29, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - June 29, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 04, 2026
- LA Times - April 22, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 06, 2026
- LA Times - February 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 20, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- New York Times - December 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2025
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 19, 2025
- USA Today - February 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2025
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