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What’s the point of extra minute in sleep? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

comma

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'what's the point' is the definition.
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'extra minute in sleep?' is the wordplay.
'extra minute' becomes 'm' (abbreviation. I am not sure about the 'extra' bit.).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'sleep?' becomes 'coma' (I have seen 'Deep sleep ' mean 'coma' so perhaps 'sleep' could also mean 'coma').
'm' inserted within 'coma' is 'COMMA'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for comma that I've seen before include "Short break" , "Kind of butterfly" , "Puncuation mark" , "its use may be divisive" , "Mark for smallest division of a sentence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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