| OVERSTAFFED | Somehow saved effort, describing a bureaucratic office? (11) |
| LINEONE | Start of a bureaucratic form |
| WILLOW | Bat somehow saved from disastrous swallow dive (6) |
| DEMENTIA | Affliction meant I'd somehow saved energy (8) |
| APPARATCHIK | Bureaucratic official (11) |
| OFFICIALESE | Facile foe is revising bureaucratic language |
| FILLUPAFORM | Comply with bureaucratic practice, as classmates help to do (4,2,1,4) |
| OFFICIALISM | Excessive love of bureaucratic routine |
| OFFICEPARTY | Bureaucratic Christmas celebration (6,5) |
| BUREAUCRACY | Bureaucratic rules |
| PAPERCHASE | Altering a single letter, strong grip secretary's taken on bureaucratic nightmare (10) |
| BOXTICKING | Routine bureaucratic approach with a potentially explosive package? (3,7) |
| PROCEDURAL | Bureaucratic specialist corrected a crude learner (10) |
| FOURTHOFFICIAL | Figure starts to trouble here bureaucratic type assisting a referee (6,8) |
| PAPERTRAIL | Hansel and Gretel should have tried leaving this, rather than breadcrumbs, as a more reliable, if bureaucratic, track record (5,5) |
| BYZANTIUM | Prototype of overlarge, bureaucratic government |
| REDTAPE | Colourful bureaucratic procedure (3,4) |
| BRUSSELS | Source of bureaucratic rules absurdly restricting Heads of State? (8) |
| EUROSPEAK | New money's top in bureaucratic jargon (9) |
| NEWSPEAK | Information given before summit in bureaucratic language |
