Possible Clues:

• Aurora, poetically
• *Beginning
• Lestat's curfew
• Start time for many a military mission
• Setting of the painting 'Washington Crossing the Delaware'
• End of the night
• Sandwich brought back at noon? Much earlier
• Light in East and West goes out
• Bristle on Dad's face — time to shave it off?
• This will break but never of late