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One time alarm goes off and it's unimportant! (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

immaterial

'it's unimportant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'one time alarm goes off' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'goes off' is an anagram indicator.
'time'+'alarm'='timealarm'
'timealarm' anagrammed gives 'mmaterial'.
'i'+'mmaterial'='IMMATERIAL'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for immaterial that I've seen before include "of no importance" , "unimportant" , "Irrelevant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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