Wordy Wednesday 86: Section Six 8

WORDY WEDNESDAY #83

LOGICROSSWORD 2 (answer)

It's been two weeks, so time to unveil the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Giovanni Pagano **
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Bryce Herdt **
John Bulten **
Ryan Faley **
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yyw **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #84

LOGICROSSWORD 3 (answer)

It's been two weeks, so time to unveil the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Jack Bross **
Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt *
John Bulten **
Ryan Faley *
Sam Levitin *
yyw **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #85

PENT WORDS 17 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #86

SECTION SIX 8

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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.

Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer.

Ring 1
1 One with high hopes
2 Don't forbid
3 Lacking in knowledge
4 Preserve, perhaps
5 Mathematician and game theorist John
6 ____ Drama Island (2007-2008 cartoon)

Ring 2
* Lyme disease transmitter
* Wolfe of Rex Stout novels
* Toothless, long-tongued mammals
* Roma is its capital
* Fire without aiming

Ring 3
* Play on repeat
* Very old
* Ambulance's destination
* Wrestler Steve Borden, more familiarly

Ring 4
* Reasonable Faith author William Lane Craig, for one
* ____ helmet
* Mario & ____ at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (upcoming video game)

Ring 5
* Clint Eastwood wore one in A Fistful of Dollars
* Small one-handed weapon

Ring 6
* Contents of a witch's cauldron, perhaps

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What rock band sang "Hold the Line"?

Until next time, yappy solving!