Wordy Wednesday 176: Section Six 17

WORDY WEDNESDAY #174

HEX PATHFINDER 10 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #175

PENT WORDS 35 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #176

SECTION SIX 17

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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 Indigenous
2 Bert's cohort on Sesame Street
3 One making bread
4 Laws-to-be
5 Jordan of Space Jam
6 Like some classics

Ring 2
* You might swear on one
* Originating from Dublin, for example
* A place's average weather conditions
* Singer Gomez
* November 11 honoree

Ring 3
* Compound countered by certain allergy meds
* 12 Years a ____ (2013 film)
* Teach to be obedient, as an animal
* Defamatory written statement

Ring 4
* x and y, in algebra
* "The sky's the ____"
* Christian period of fasting

Ring 5
* A Starbucks drink size
* Region after which a husky breed is named

Ring 6
* "Edge of Seventeen" singer Nicks

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