Wordy Wednesday 516: Section Six 51

WORDY WEDNESDAY #513
DIVIDED INTO COLUMNS 12 (answer)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #514
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 10 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #515
PENT WORDS 103 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #516
SECTION SIX 51
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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 Flat-roofed American Indian dwelling
2 Like marketing designed to spread on social media
3 ____ Girls (2004 Lindsay Lohan film)
4 Started
5 Ahead
6 Colorful term for police officers

Ring 2
* It’s measured in decibels
* ____ Croft: Tomb Raider (2001 film)
* City on Maine’s Penobscot River
* Possible quality of someone who enjoys traveling
* Speed

Ring 3
* A type of pill
* 2023 HBO Max series which is a spin-off of the Scooby-Doo franchise
* ____ republic
* Web-based game bought by the New York Times Company in 2022

Ring 4
* 1996 hit for the Spice Girls
* A shade of purple
* “Is nothing ____?”

Ring 5
* 2007-2008 sitcom, spun off from GEICO ads, about Neanderthals living in modern times
* Medal or trophy

Ring 6
* State in which Area 51 is located

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