Had to do with red tape awkwardly restricting home (9)
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I believe the answer is:
pertained
'had to do with' is the definition.
('pertain' can be a synonym of 'have to do with')
'red tape awkwardly restricting home' is the wordplay.
'awkwardly' indicates an anagram.
'restricting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'red'+'tape'='redtape'
'redtape' anagrammed gives 'pertaed'.
'pertaed' enclosing 'in' is 'PERTAINED'.
(Other definitions for pertained that I've seen before include "Was applicable (to something)" , "Was material" , "bore on" .)