Female got up in the morning the day before (5)
I believe the answer is:
maeve
'female' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'up in the morning the day before' is the wordplay.
'up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'in the morning' becomes 'am' (AM on a clock).
'the day' becomes 'eve' (eve is a kind of day).
'before' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'am' put after 'eve' is 'eveam'.
'eveam' written backwards gives 'MAEVE'.
'got' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for maeve that I've seen before include "Novelist Binchy or old Celtic Queen" , "__ Binchy, Irish novelist, d. 2012" , ". . . . . Binchy is popular novelist" , "Irishwoman" , "Name" .)