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Additional passage from book court rejected (5)

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I believe the answer is:

extra

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'additional' is the definition.
(extra means additional or surplus)

'passage from book court rejected' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'from' could be 'ex' ('from' in Latin) and 'ex' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'tra' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for extra that I've seen before include "Unnecessary" , "particularly" , "person in shot?" , "Minor actor in crowd scenes" , "Not a hit certainly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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