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The foreigner driving the nail point in (5)

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alien

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'the foreigner' is the definition.
('alien' can be a synonym of 'foreigner')

'driving the nail point in' is the wordplay.
'driving the nail' becomes 'an' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'point' becomes 'lie' (lie is a kind of point).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'an' enclosing 'lie' is 'ALIEN'.

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(Other definitions for alien that I've seen before include "Creature from another planet" , "Unfamiliar; foreign" , "repugnant" , "One is from outer space, perhaps" , "extraneous" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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