| EAST | From the Greek meaning "dawn", the direction of the rising Sun (4) |
| EOLITHS | From the Greek meaning "dawn stones", chipped flints originally thought to have been the earliest stone tools (7) |
| KWACHA | Derived from several African languages meaning "dawn", the currency of Zambia since 1968 (6) |
| DUSK | From _ Till Dawn: The Series, US horror drama of the 2010s (4) |
| ESAI | Morales of 'From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series' |
| LAOS | Land of the Rising Sun holding American (4) |
| ONUS | Burden with order of the rising sun (4) |
| EASTERN | From the direction of the rising sun (7) |
| TOE | Point in the direction of the rising sun (3) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| ANIMALS | The ___ (British Invasion group with the hit "The House of the Rising Sun") |
| EO | Derived from the Greek word "eos" meaning "dawn", what word element means "early" or "primeval"? (2) |
| SCARAB | Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt associated with Khepri, the god of the rising sun (6) |
| JAPANESE | Jane's ape moves from the Land of the Rising Sun (8) |
| HOUSE | The - of the Rising Sun; folk song with a version recorded by The Animals in 1964 (5) |
| AMINOR | Key of "Stairway to Heaven" and "House of the Rising Sun" |
| IMONE | "...and God I know ___ ___." (Bit of "house of the Rising Sun") |
| EASTWARD | Was trade diverted to the Land of the Rising Sun? (8) |
| PACKTHEANIMALS | Serve as a roadie for "The House of the Rising Sun" group? |
