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Stopped flow of blood from cut hands damaged with end of knife (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

staunched

'stopped flow of blood' is the definition.

'cut hands damaged with end of knife' is the wordplay.
'damaged with' indicates an anagram.
'end of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'knife' is 'e'.
'cut'+'hands'='cuthands'
'cuthands' anagrammed with 'e' can make 'STAUNCHED'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Another definition for staunched that I've seen is " checked".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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