Time to crow

The answer

DAWN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAWN answer page.

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ATDAWN (3 uses in xd)
• SUNUP (2 uses in xd)
• SUNRISE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DAWN

Every other clue in this collection answered by DAWN, most used first.

• Daybreak - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• First light - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunup - used 34 times, most recently in 2024
• Sunrise - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Beginning - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Vampire's curfew - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Time of day. - used 12 times, most recently in 1978
• Cockcrow - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• When roosters crow - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Aurora - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Break of day - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Crowing time - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
• "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
• A long time - AGES, used 156 times
• High time? - NOON, used 151 times
• "The Time Machine" race - ELOI, used 148 times

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