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Flee Tahiti hotel with girl, run away excited (8,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hightail it

'flee' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'tahiti hotel with girl run away excited' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'run' becomes 'r' (cricket abbreviation).
'away' is a deletion indicator.
'excited' indicates an anagram.
'tahiti'+'h'='tahitih'
'tahitih' going around 'girl' is 'tahitigirlh'.
'tahitigirlh' with 'r' taken away is 'tahitigilh'.
'tahitigilh' is an anagram of 'HIGHTAIL IT'.

(Other definitions for hightail it that I've seen before include "Hurry away" , "scarper" , "rush off" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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