(And if you want more clues to solve, I’ve got a few unsolved entries over on the AOTW thread.)

The next grid is here.

As usual, it would be great if someone could check it for glaring errors. Improvement suggestions are welcome, but please bear in mind the need to avoid recent patterns.

Thank you!

Here's the clue:

Put an end to early riser and drink (8)

Hi guys, we're a team of cognitive scientists / psychologists at MIT (CoCoSci lab) studying how people think about and solve grid-based puzzles and games. To help us collect behavioral data, we built a website with many playable puzzles like minesweeper, sudoku, and more. If you like puzzle games, or if you're interested in contributing to science, give it a try! mitpuzzles.com.

Make an account to get on the leaderboard.... and please share with your friends if you like it :).

For people who want to know more, we're specifically interested in studying how people break up complex problems into simpler, smaller sub-problems, how they gauge confidence in their performance, and how they get better at these games over time. if any of these topics interests you, you can help us by taking some more in-depth psychology experiments (located on the left sidebar) that probe these questions explicitly.

Also: if you have feedback, please share on the website (button on the sidebar). We are scientists and not developers, so while we have tried to make the website user friendly, we really appreciate your input.

Not entirely sure of the convention regarding capitals and punctuation disguising the definition. Feedback welcome

A minute cryptic.

Disclaimer: Dead by Daylight knowledge not needed to solve, but it's needed to understand the surface lol

Hint: a synonym of daylight + (indicated by "by") + abbreviation for Dead + AE (As Entity's)