| KWACHA | Derived from several African languages meaning "dawn", the currency of Zambia since 1968 (6) |
| EAST | From the Greek meaning "dawn", the direction of the rising Sun (4) |
| SYNERGY | "The only word in our language meaning behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts," per Buckminster Fuller |
| CHUTZPAH | Word originally from the Yiddish language meaning extreme self-confidence or arrogance (8) |
| AURORA | From the Latin meaning "dawn", a phenomenon caused as the result of escaped charged particles from the solar wind colliding with atoms in Earth's magnetosphere (6) |
| CHORUS | Dawn -; the birdsong of sunrise (6) |
| DOLLAR | The currency of, inter alia, Namibia and Jamaica (6) |
| PLANAR | Computer graphics pixel information from several bitplanes. (6) |
| SELECT | Choose from several (6) |
| BANTU | Group of African languages that includes most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope |
| BIGMAC | Hamburger since 1968 (2 wds.) |
| SHONEN | "___ Jump" (manga magazine since 1968) |
| NYQUIL | Cold medicine brand since 1968 |
| BARHOP | Compare screwdrivers from several local suppliers? |
| COROT | French painter of Italian landscapes including The Bridge at Narni, Peasants Under the Trees at Dawn, The Oak in the Valley and Evening on the Lake (5) |
| EO | Derived from the Greek word "eos" meaning "dawn", what word element means "early" or "primeval"? (2) |
| EOLITHS | From the Greek meaning "dawn stones", chipped flints originally thought to have been the earliest stone tools (7) |
| DUSK | From _ Till Dawn: The Series, US horror drama of the 2010s (4) |
| RUFIYAA | Succeeding the use of cowry shells and printed on decorative banknotes, the currency of the Maldives (7) |
| ESAI | Morales of 'From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series' |
