Bureaucracy
The crossword clue "Bureaucracy" is answered by REDTAPE, a 7-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REDTAPE
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REDTAPE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for REDTAPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by REDTAPE, most used first.
- Bureaucratic hassle - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Bureaucratic tangle - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Bureaucratic snarl - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Bureaucratic nuisance - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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