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Mark finds mine's cool, somehow (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

semicolon

'mark' is the definition.
(I know that semicolon is a type of punctuation)

'mine's cool somehow' is the wordplay.
'somehow' indicates an anagram.
'mines'+'cool'='minescool'
'minescool' anagrammed gives 'SEMICOLON'.

'finds' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for semicolon that I've seen before include "half a stop" , "Punctuation mark denoting a pause in a sentence" , "used by writers for a break" , "Joiner" , "can cut sentence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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