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Scotsman, the first person that's regularly driven over (7)

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I believe the answer is:

macadam

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'regularly driven over' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'scotsman the first person' is the wordplay.
'scotsman' becomes 'mac'.
'the first person' becomes 'adam' (biblical first person created).
'mac'+'adam'='MACADAM'

'that's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for macadam that I've seen before include "stones on the way" , "Road-surfacing material" , "Material for roads" , "Broken stones" , "(Inventor of) road surface" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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