Appalling red tape came to a point (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Aug 2025 |
Record Bolshevik making a point? |
The Times Cryptic |
16 Jul 2025 |
Narrowed at one end (7) |
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Came to the point throwing out red tape (7) |
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Red tape transposed and narrowed (7) |
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Gradually left off recording, being embarrassed (7) |
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Shaped thinner gradually |
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Becoming gradually slenderer |
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Narrowed towards the top (7) |
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Coming to a point |
LA Times Daily |
24 Feb 2025 |
Recording socialist who got thinner (7) |
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Predate (anag) (7) |
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Made gradually smaller one end |
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Red tape became narrow (7) |
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Stuff of bureaucracy is in reverse order, gradually lessening (7) |
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Red tape reformed and gradually reduced |
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Got slimmer |
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Getting finer red tape perhaps (7) |
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Gradually thinner towards one end |
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Reached a point of transposing usual bureaucracy |
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Diminished slowly in size |
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Record by socialist got thinner |
Mirror Cryptic |
12 Dec 2024 |
Narrowed |
Mirror Quick |
12 Dec 2024 |
Came to a fine end (7) |
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Deep art has trouble coming to a point (7) |
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Strip that's a bright colour reduced gradually (7) |
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Narrowed |
Mirror Quick |
03 Oct 2024 |
Record by socialist got thinner |
Mirror Cryptic |
03 Oct 2024 |
Got to the point? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
14 Sep 2024 |
Narrowed to a point |
Mirror Tea Time |
13 Sep 2024 |
Came to the point, swapping parts of bureaucracy (7) |
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Appalling red tape came to a point (7) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
20 Aug 2024 |
Gradually leaving off |
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Like some shirt bottoms |
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It was the sort of red tape that became gradually left off |
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Red tape somehow got narrower |
Mirror Cryptic |
05 Jun 2024 |
Wedge-shaped |
Mirror Quick |
05 Jun 2024 |
Record speed essentially in road becoming gradually narrower (7) |
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A form of red tape? Yes! To a point! |
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Like some candles |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Apr 2024 |
Got narrower |
Premier Sunday |
28 Apr 2024 |
A ribbon, brightly coloured and narrower at one end than the other |
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After repeat performance, Diamond gradually tailed off (7) |
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Became narrow |
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A ribbon, brightly coloured and narrower at one end than the other (7) |
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Came to the point perhaps (7) |
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Diminishing slowly in size |
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Parts of bureaucratic process are switched, becoming less extensive |
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Narrowed, like a stick float's tip (7) |
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Record left-winger, getting to the point (7) |
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Narrowed gradually |
Newsday |
29 Oct 2023 |
*Bureaucratic hassle |
New York Times |
05 Oct 2023 |
Got to the point? |
LA Times Daily |
29 Apr 2023 |
Pointed thanks for each editor |
The Times Cryptic |
27 Jul 2022 |
Got to the point? |
Universal |
20 May 2022 |
Chasing record, leftist gradually came to the point |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Oct 2021 |
Record: wine gradually diminished |
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Record: wine gradually diminished |
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Thanks to exercise, looking hot and sweaty but gradually got thinner |
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Record revolutionary coming to a point |
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Cart-horse bureaucracy, up to a point? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Jan 2021 |
Harry, Bill and Peter became sharp |
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Pointed record for revolutionary |
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Like some candles |
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Like chopsticks |
The New Yorker |
26 Aug 2019 |
Bureaucracy, having shifted communist to the right, came to a point |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Aug 2019 |
Came to a point |
Thomas Joseph |
27 May 2019 |
Liberal peer, corseted in a bit, got thinner |
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Like pool cues |
The New Yorker |
18 Feb 2019 |
Narrow head of tree monkey with rosy behind |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Jan 2019 |
Like some cigars and jeans |
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... red tape menace reduced |
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Tread designed to accommodate drill narrowing at one end |
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Narrowed gradually |
Premier Sunday |
09 Jul 2017 |
Embarrassed after strip, faded away |
The Telegraph Toughie |
23 Mar 2017 |
Coming to a point |
LA Times Daily |
16 Nov 2016 |
Came to the point: red tape requires a new order |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jun 2016 |
Like the pointed end of a pencil |
New York Times |
24 Feb 2016 |
Became gradually smaller |
Universal |
24 Feb 2016 |
Reducing to a final point |
The Times Concise |
25 Jan 2016 |
Narrowed gradually |
Newsday |
18 Jan 2016 |
Coming to a point |
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Narrowed |
The Washington Post |
22 Nov 2015 |
Narrowing to a point |
The Times Concise |
29 Sep 2015 |
Narrowed |
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Narrowed gradually |
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Dispensed with red tape — came to the point |
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Coming to a point |
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Got to the point? |
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Like a pencil point |
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Like chopsticks |
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Like chopsticks |
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Thinned out |
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Like stocking caps |
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Like a pencil point |
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Like a pencil point |
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Coming to a point |
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Getting to the point? |
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Like some candles |
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Like some candles |
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Narrowing toward one end |
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Narrowed down |
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Narrowing toward one end |
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Like some pant legs |
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Like some pant legs |
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Narrowed down |
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Narrowed |
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Pointed |
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Came to a point |
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Pointed |
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Like some shirts |
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Chasing record, leftist gradually came to the point |
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Like chopsticks |
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Like candles |
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Like some jeans legs |
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Anagram of RED TAPE |
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Like most toothpicks or steeples |
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Diminished gradually |
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Like the Trylon |
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Spirelike |
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Decreased gradually |
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Like a pyramid |
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Diminished slowly. |
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Pyramidical. |
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Lessened gradually. |
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___ off (stopped gradually). |
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Smaller toward the end. |
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Diminished. |
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Lessened gradually |
New York Times |
15 Feb 1942 |