From the Home Office in....
By Chris Morse

Each of the following cryptolists is a top ten list missing one item.
If you take each missing item in its ciphertext from, it is a normal
English word. Reading these words in order:

"For final answer use singular form of sixth lists category"

Which would be PLAGUE.

Greek Letters
RINAR - alpha
HFOR - beta
CREER - gamma
LFIOR - delta
FNBTISY - epsilon
*
DFOR - zeta
OAFOR - theta
TSOR - iota
URNNR - kappa
Missing: ETA => FOR

Vice Presidents
TOTUD - Adams
RAHHALDYB - Jefferson
KELL - Burr
ZNSBFYB - Clinton
MALLI - Gerry
FYUGCSBD - Tompkins
ZTNPYEB - Calhoun
JTB KELAB - Van Buren
RYPBDYB - Johnson
*
Missing: TYLER => FINAL

First elements
ATHDLONI - Hydrogen
*
SWUAWER - Lithium
CNDTSSWER - Beryllium
CLDLI - Boron
MPDCLI - Carbon
IWUDLONI - Nitrogen
LFTONI - Oxygen
XSELDWIN - Fluorine
INLI - Neon
Missing: HELIUM => ANSWER

MTV first video artists
WSF HIVVYFG - The Buggles
UCW HFBCWCK - Pat Benatar
KJE GWFZCKW - Rod Stewart
WSF ZSJ - The Who
*
LYTMM KTLSCKE - Cliff Richard
UKFWFBEFKG - Pretenders
WJEE KIBEVKFB - Todd Rundgren
KFJ GUFFEZCVJB - REO Speedwagon
GWNP - Styx
Missing: PhD => USE

Universities by degree granting in us
CRBMRBK - Harvard
HANNARU RED URBO - William and mary
ORNQ - Yale
YBAESQFIE - Princeton
*
YQEE - Penn
LBIHE - Brown
BGFWQBJ - Rutgers
KRBFUIGFC - Dartmouth
CRUYKQE-JOKEQO - Hampden-Sydney
Missing: COLUMBIA => SINGULAR

Plagues
LMBBQ - Blood
JTBHG - Frogs
HPOCG - Gnats
JMRZG - Flies
MRAZGCBVE QRGZOGZ - Livestock disease
LBRMG - Boils
*
MBVYGCG - Locusts
QOTEPZGG - Darkness
QZOCF BJ JRTGCLBTP GBP - Death of Firstborn Son
Missing: HAIL => FORM

Jupiter's Moons out from planet
JLNOB - Metis
ICAIBLNI - Adrastea
IJIPNZLI - Amalthea
NZLKL - Thebe
*
LMAFSI - Europa
QITDJLCL - Ganymede
EIPPOBNF - Callisto
NZLJOBNF - Themisto
PLCI - Leda
Missing: IO => OF

Mohs Scale
STAJ - Talc
DLXPCF - Gypsum
JTAJRSM - Calcite
OACIBRSM - Fluorite
TXTSRSM - Apatite
IBSUIJATPM - Orthoclase
KCTBSH - Quartz
*
JIBCENCF - Corundum
NRTFIEN - Diamond
Missing: TOPAZ => SIXTH

Japanese cities by population (2002)
ALTEL - Tokyo
ELTLOSNS - Yokohama
*
USHLES - Nagoya
ISCCLGL - Sapporo
TELAL - Kyoto
TLKR - Kobe
JPTPLTS - Fukuoka
TSBSISTY - Kawasaki
OYGLIOYNS - Hiroshima
Missing: Osaka => LISTS

REM studio albums
GEZGEZ - Murmur
ZOTSARHRU - Reckoning
BXPION AB YJO ZOTARNYZETYHAR - Fables of the Reconstruction
IHBO'N ZHTJ LXUOXRY - Life's Rich Pageant
UZOOR - Green
*
AEY AB YHGO - Out of Time
XEYAGXYHT BAZ YJO LOALIO - Automatic for the People
GARNYOZ - Monster
ROV XCFORYEZON HR JH-BH - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Missing: DOCUMENT => CATEGORY