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It hurts American with boring visit to travel covertly (4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

stow away

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'travel covertly' is the definition.
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'it hurts american with boring visit' is the wordplay.
'it hurts' becomes 'ow' (exclamation of pain).
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'with' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'boring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters must 'bore' a hole into other letters).
'visit' becomes 'stay' (I've seen this in another clue).
'ow'+'a'+'w'='owaw'
'owaw' inserted into 'stay' is 'STOW AWAY'.

'to' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for stow away that I've seen is " Sneak on board".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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