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British university caricature represented as involving red tape? (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bureaucratic

'involving red tape?' is the definition.

'british university caricature represented' is the wordplay.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in 'BBC').
'university' becomes 'u'.
'represented' indicates an anagram.
'caricature' anagrammed gives 'reaucratic'.
'b'+'u'+'reaucratic'='BUREAUCRATIC'

'as' is the link.

(Another definition for bureaucratic that I've seen is " rather like Sir Humphrey?".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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