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Clot, prisoner and American lass taking drug (7)

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I believe the answer is:

congeal

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'clot' is the definition.
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'prisoner and american lass taking drug' is the wordplay.
'prisoner' becomes 'con' (abbreviation for 'convict').
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'american lass' becomes 'gal' (both can mean a girl. I am not sure about the 'american' bit.).
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'drug' becomes 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy).
'gal' placed around 'e' is 'geal'.
'con'+'geal'='CONGEAL'

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(Other definitions for congeal that I've seen before include "Set - go clean (anag)" , "Coagulate" , "cake" , "Cool and solidify" , "Become solid" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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