Wordle 1,576 5/6*
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Minute Cryptic - 12 October, 2025 (one of those clues where it is easiest to us their interface to solve it. Yesterday I had to take a nephew to a Saturday, basically recreational, lesson and thought I'd use it as an excuse to sit and read. Which I did, successfully for 45 minutes and 60 pages. There is something about being forced into to sitting down with few distractions and a book. It's why I always take one to anywhere I'm being forced to waiit. They're a good do not disturb notice too. When put and about I've very occasionally heard teenagers and young people play music on their phone in public. Having once being a teenager I can tolerate it a bit. Like low level anti-social behaviour. Yesterday I observed, or rather heard, a grown up playing what sounded like a reasonable thriller as an audiobook. My guess is that they left headphones at home and were stuck in the same situation - waiting. I was squatting on a low step outside a 1950s church like an east Asian reading a book and I'd guess they thought they had it low enough I couldn't hear and they were inside. Or maybe they wanted attention. The equivalent of someone saying "hey, that music's really cool and I think you're really cool too" or "peng, six seven, you like books by Manning Hoobs, we're Audible roadmen bro". Also, in the one place in town people have hung St George flags someone, or some people, have climbed up and stenciled "welcome" on them. I'm not sure that makes them more, or less, potentially threatening. And in some ways it shouldn't be threatening - traditionally the Stars and Stripes, even the Swedish or Danish flags, haven't been associated with nationalism and beating up foreigners and hurting foreigner adjacent people and hate/fear.)
"Antique rocking chair in empty attic" (7)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (27,603 solvers so far).
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