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Can't parse this Mail one from yesterday.
1a. Bureaucracy reduced after part-exchange. (3,4)
R-d,-a-e. So presumably 'Red tape', meaning bureaucracy, but how does the rest of the clue work?

Red as abbreviation of reduced followed by anagram of part?

tapered means reduced
tape red - exchange the parts, giving red- tape

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