Word "TAPERED" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
becoming gradually narrower
Synonyms:
narrowing, tapering
Examples:
trousers with tapered legs

Crossword Clues for TAPERED

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Clue Source Date
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)
Came to the point throwing out red tape (7)
Red tape transposed and narrowed (7)
Gradually left off recording, being embarrassed (7)
Shaped thinner gradually
Becoming gradually slenderer
Narrowed towards the top (7)
Coming to a point LA Times Daily 24 Feb 2025
Recording socialist who got thinner (7)
Predate (anag) (7)
Made gradually smaller one end
Red tape became narrow (7)
Stuff of bureaucracy is in reverse order, gradually lessening (7)
Red tape reformed and gradually reduced
Got slimmer
Getting finer red tape perhaps (7)
Gradually thinner towards one end
Reached a point of transposing usual bureaucracy
Diminished slowly in size
Record by socialist got thinner Mirror Cryptic 12 Dec 2024
Narrowed Mirror Quick 12 Dec 2024
Came to a fine end (7)
Deep art has trouble coming to a point (7)
Strip that's a bright colour reduced gradually (7)
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)
Appalling red tape came to a point (7) Puzzler Cryptic 20 Aug 2024
Gradually leaving off
Like some shirt bottoms
It was the sort of red tape that became gradually left off
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)
A form of red tape? Yes! To a point!
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
After repeat performance, Diamond gradually tailed off (7)
Became narrow
A ribbon, brightly coloured and narrower at one end than the other (7)
Came to the point perhaps (7)
Diminishing slowly in size
Parts of bureaucratic process are switched, becoming less extensive
Narrowed, like a stick float's tip (7)
Record left-winger, getting to the point (7)
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
Record: wine gradually diminished
Thanks to exercise, looking hot and sweaty but gradually got thinner
Record revolutionary coming to a point
Cart-horse bureaucracy, up to a point? The Telegraph Toughie 01 Jan 2021
Harry, Bill and Peter became sharp
Pointed record for revolutionary
Like some candles
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
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
... red tape menace reduced
Tread designed to accommodate drill narrowing at one end
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
Narrowed The Washington Post 22 Nov 2015
Narrowing to a point The Times Concise 29 Sep 2015
Narrowed
Narrowed gradually
Dispensed with red tape — came to the point
Coming to a point
Got to the point?
Like a pencil point
Like chopsticks
Like chopsticks
Thinned out
Like stocking caps
Like a pencil point
Like a pencil point
Coming to a point
Getting to the point?
Like some candles
Like some candles
Narrowing toward one end
Narrowed down
Narrowing toward one end
Like some pant legs
Like some pant legs
Narrowed down
Narrowed
Pointed
Came to a point
Pointed
Like some shirts
Chasing record, leftist gradually came to the point
Like chopsticks
Like candles
Like some jeans legs
Anagram of RED TAPE
Like most toothpicks or steeples
Diminished gradually
Like the Trylon
Spirelike
Decreased gradually
Like a pyramid
Diminished slowly.
Pyramidical.
Lessened gradually.
___ off (stopped gradually).
Smaller toward the end.
Diminished.
Lessened gradually New York Times 15 Feb 1942
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