Travellers going without support of boxers? (7)

Guardian Cryptic #28933 | 1 Down | 2022-12-06
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Not sure about this – is packer short for backpacker, which is someone who “travels without support”? And a box-er is also a packer. I was nearly there: the travellers are BACKPACKERS, from which we have to remove BACK = support

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