Lingo seeming strange to Alice in outer Detroit (7)
I believe the answer is:
dialect
'lingo' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Local lingo' mean 'dialect' so perhaps 'lingo' could also mean 'dialect')
'strange to alice in outer detroit' is the wordplay.
'strange' indicates an anagram.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'outer' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'detroit' with its centre removed is 'dt'.
'alice' anagrammed gives 'ialec'.
'ialec' placed into 'dt' is 'DIALECT'.
'seeming' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dialect that I've seen before include "Regional language form" , "talk from the regions" , "Local speech variant" , "type of language" , "Regional form of speech" .)