Wordy Wednesday 146: Section Six 14

WORDY WEDNESDAY #144

BROKEN WORD SEARCH (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:
Anthony Bailey **
Benjamin Smith **
Giovanni Pagano **
Jack Bross **
James Sinnett **
Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
Chris Hendricks *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #145

PENT WORDS 29 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #146

SECTION SIX 14

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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, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1
1 Rival
2 Barbie, for one
3 Pictures in one's mind's eye
4 Mother ____
5 Poem where the first letter of each line spells something
6 From ____ with Love

Ring 2
* Wrote the music for, as a movie
* The stripes of the US flag represent these
* What records are made of
* GoDaddy offerings
* One of four in a deck of playing cards

Ring 3
* Old West outlaw Butch
* Auspice
* Small stringed instrument played with a bow
* Names at the start or end of a movie

Ring 4
* I Am Spock author Leonard
* Gave aid to
* Duplicate

Ring 5
* Euphoria
* Vegetable that famously induces tears when cut

Ring 6
* 14-line poem

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