Wordle 1,572 5/6* (very mildly.)
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Minute Cryptic - 8 October, 2025 (I got this by guessing then got it got it. I hear people my age go on about how much worse they feel than when they were younger and it has never rung true for me because I had bouts of severe juvenile arthritis and continuing bouts of spondyloarthritis. So I've generally felt about the same or better most of the time. Or, at least I have worse reference points to how bad one can feel, or something like that. I think going on a skateboard would probably not be a good idea without practice and I definitely get fatter quicker. However there is an accumulation of grief dreams. When one has a dream about someone or someplace that directly or indirectly isn't there any more. I had three last night - dad, Peter the mechanic visiting and realising dad wasn't there to talk to him, one of two gramdads being a bit mad but in a nostalgic way, and a deaf great aunt, at a house that had been demolished in a town where my family no longer lives and I'd now visit as a tourist not a guest, all made cameos. On the other hand, I am still amused by someone having "Send flowers over dick pics anyday!" in their Tinder about info, last night, because I thought about the types of flowers that could cover genitals and the logistics of taking the selfie*. What a wonderful age of technology.)
"Spain's and France's and Italy's earliest hairy humanoid" (4)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (34,120 solvers so far).
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https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_NsRgb4Eg
* for reference I wouldn't do this for fear of them turning up at a later date on a website for, the albeit probably tiny, community of women with a fetish for flowers over dick pics. Plus solicited dick pics are less foul than unsolicited ones but also a bit of a red flag. I don't think the flowers over dick pics were solicited. I could send a picture of Morrissey but that's maybe a niche joke.