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Fugitive American breaching part of airport (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

runaway

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'fugitive' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'american breaching part of airport' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'part' could be 'way' (way is a kind of part) and 'way' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'run' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for runaway that I've seen before include "Del Shannon hit" , "refugee?" , "scooter?" , "desert" , "Absconder" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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