Official brought up difficulty with area cut in review (10)
I believe the answer is:
bureaucrat
'official' is the definition.
(bureaucrat is a kind of official)
'brought up difficulty with area cut in review' is the wordplay.
'brought up' is a reversal indicator (down clues only).
'difficulty' becomes 'rub' (rub is a kind of difficulty**).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'in review' is an anagram indicator.
'rub' reversed gives 'bur'.
'area'+'cut'='areacut'
'areacut' is an anagram of 'eaucrat'.
'bur'+'eaucrat'='BUREAUCRAT'
(Other definitions for bureaucrat that I've seen before include "Administrator" , "Government official" , "Mandarin" .)