| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| AUTHORITIES | Government officials | |
| BUREAUCRACY | Government officials, collectively. | |
| CIVILSERVANTS | Government officials make well-mannered lackeys | |
| NEOCRACY | Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials. | |
| To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter. | ||
| HARA-KIRI | Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. | |