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Foreign fabricator follows fellow feeding a French friend (10)

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unfamiliar

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'fabricator follows fellow feeding a french friend' is the wordplay.
'fabricator' becomes 'liar' (I've seen this before).
'follows' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'fellow feeding' becomes 'un' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a french' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'friend' becomes 'ami' ('friend' in French).
'un'+'f'+'ami'='unfami'
'liar' after 'unfami' is 'UNFAMILIAR'.

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I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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