clotted

The larger streets such as Palisades Drive and Sunset Boulevard were already clotted with cars, so he used back roads to escape.

Fady Haddad, the university’s head of vascular surgery, and his team painstakingly repaired and reconnected the damaged blood vessels, but 48 hours later, they had inexplicably clotted and failed.

Jibreel points to gauze used to bandage a wound, and remarks on the blood that clotted after the tourniquet was applied.

Leale’s fingers probed for the source of the blood and found it behind the left ear: a neat, round hole, about the diameter of a man’s fingertip, clotted with a plug of coagulated blood.

A hint: It’s dense, fragrant and dolloped with butter, clotted cream and fresh jam.