| DAYBREAK | Father operated bakery around dawn (8) |
| ROCKNROLL | Items sold in sweet shop and bakery around northern province of The King? (4,1,4) |
| REDSTART | European songbird to begin again around dawn primarily (8) |
| TWILIGHT | Time around dawn or dusk when crepuscular animals, birds and insects, including barn owls, foxes, hawk moths, nightjars, pipistrelles and tawnies, are most active (8) |
| EARLY | Work shift starting around dawn (5) |
| ORIGIN | Gold liquor that Hoskins will have around dawn (6) |
| AURORA | Leaders of ancient unnamed region organised rituals around dawn |
| PERKIER | Like morning people vis-a-vis night owls, around dawn |
| IMHOHOHOME | What Santa says around dawn on Christmas Day? |
| ADVENT | Five taking a dip around dawn (6) |
| WAND | Magician's baton, waved around dawn (4) |
| PRIMETIME | For monks perhaps around dawn is when most people are turned on |
| PRINCESS | Class 47 that operated 'Staycation Express' trains in the summer of 2020 (8, 8) |
| GALLOWAY | Class 47 that operated 'Staycation Express' trains in the summer of 2020 (8, 8) |
| HALLOWED | Steaming coal pit operated without resistance (8) |
| ESTEEMED | Respected heads of European states reportedly co-operated (8) |
| ECONOMIC | Operated at a profit (8) |
| APPROVAL | Dismay about remotely-operated vehicle gaining acceptance (8) |
| MANDRAKE | Garden tool operated noisily first to expose poisonous plant (8) |
| TREADLES | Levers operated with the foot (8) |
