— the crack of dawn (2,2)
'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 quite see how this works, but
'crack' could be 'break' and 'break' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'day' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
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".)