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Answer	Crossword Clue
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic delays
REDTAPE	Snarl at a bureaucracy
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic excess

REDTAPE	Bureaucracy problem
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic rigmarole
REDTAPE	Obstacle to getting things done
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic annoyance
REDTAPE	Procedural annoyance
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic waste
REDTAPE	It's hard to cut through
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic form-filling

REDTAPE	Bureaucratic tangle
REDTAPE	Procedural complication
REDTAPE	Too much paperwork, perhaps
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic nonsense
REDTAPE	Sign of a bureaucracy
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic stumbling block
REDTAPE	Time-consuming procedure
REDTAPE	Piles of paperwork, perhaps

REDTAPE	Symbol of bureaucracy
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic nightmare
REDTAPE	Frustrating procedure
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic snag
REDTAPE	Procedural impediment
REDTAPE	Washington's forte?
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic delay
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic hassle

REDTAPE	Bureaucratic ritual
REDTAPE	Bureaucratic snarl
REDTAPE	Paperwork, perhaps
REDTAPE	Bureaucracy
REDTAPE	Progress impediment
REDTAPE	Progress impeder
REDTAPE	Metaphorical obstacle
REDTAPE	What Civil War troop records were kept in

REDTAPE	Progress slower
REDTAPE	Cause of delays
REDTAPE	Excessive attention to routine in official doings.
REDTAPE	Unpopular Government product.
REDTAPE	Unpopular government product.