The crack of dawn? (5,2,3)
'the crack of dawn?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'crack of dawn?' is the wordplay.
'crack' becomes 'break'.
'dawn?' becomes 'day' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'break'+'of'+'day'='BREAK OF DAY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for break of day that I've seen before include "Dawn" , "First light" .)
'the crack of dawn?' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'the crack' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'crack' could be 'break' and 'break' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'day' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for daybreak that I've seen before include "Dawn" , "Cockcrow" , "Sunrise" , "very short holiday" , "When light first appears" .)
(Another definition for up at that I've seen is " Attending something".)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">the crack of dawn</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for sunup that I've seen before include "when a new day dawns" , "Dawn (mainly US)" , "Dawn (American)" , "Literal version of dawn" , "Literal word for the dawn" .)