Wordy Wednesday 606: Section Six 60

WORDY WEDNESDAY #604
FRAMELINKS 24 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #605
PENT WORDS 121 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #606
SECTION SIX 60
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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 starred spaces to form the final answer, a Scrabble-legal (unhyphenated, uncapitalized, etc.) 6-letter word.

 
Ring 1
1 Give, as blood or plasma
2 Abandon
3 Harshly denouncing
4 Remington ____ (1982-1987 detective drama series)
5 ____ diving
6 Dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs who never speaks

Ring 2
• Juvenile
• Nate who founded FiveThirtyEight
• Keto and paleo, for two
• A cellulosic textile fiber
• Mark numbers on a bingo card, perhaps

Ring 3
• Delicate
• July 24, 2024, for one
• Like your shoes after a trip to the beach, perhaps
• ____ or nothing

Ring 4
• Common Christmas tree decoration
• Able to float
• “All joking ____. . .”

Ring 5
• Locate
• “____ (Not Constantinople)” (They Might Be Giants song)

Ring 6
• Studio 60 on the ____ Strip (2006-2007 comedy-drama series created by Aaron Sorkin)

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