| 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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| Appalling red tape came to a point (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 gradually |
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| Narrowed |
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| Dispensed with red tape — came to the point |
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| Like a pencil point |
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| Got to the point? |
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| Coming to a point |
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| Like chopsticks |
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| Like chopsticks |
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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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| Thinned out |
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| Getting to the point? |
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| Like some candles |
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| Coming to a point |
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| Like some candles |
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| Narrowing toward one end |
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| Narrowing toward one end |
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| Narrowed down |
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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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| Pointed |
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| Like some shirts |
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| Came to a point |
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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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| ___ off (stopped gradually). |
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| Diminished. |
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| Smaller toward the end. |
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| Pyramidical. |
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| Lessened gradually. |
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