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Strange ways to a former champion (5)

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alien

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(Other definitions for alien that I've seen before include "Unfamiliar; foreign" , "Foreign - film directed by Ridley Scott" , "Foreign (from outer space?)" , "extraneous" , "Being from another world" .)

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