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Strange act; it is unspoken (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tacit

'unspoken' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'strange act it' is the wordplay.
'strange' indicates an anagram.
'act' with letters rearranged gives 'tac'.
'tac'+'it'='TACIT'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for tacit that I've seen before include "Silently understood" , "Unrecorded" , "Unspoken but implied" , "Wordless" , "Implied but not directly expressed" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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