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Dawn’s salary hike supporting daily (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sunrise

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'dawn's' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'hike supporting daily' is the wordplay.
'hike' becomes 'rise' (synonyms).
'supporting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'daily' becomes 'sun' (daily UK newspaper).
'rise' put after 'sun' is 'SUNRISE'.

'salary' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for sunrise that I've seen before include "What follows dawn" , "Type of industry" , "Daybreak" , "Day's beginning" , "It gets the day off to a bright start" .)

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