Wordy Wednesday 626: Section Six 62

WORDY WEDNESDAY #624
LOGICROSSWORD 12 (answer)

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Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz *
Randy Rogers **
Russ Kale **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #625
PENT WORDS 125 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #626
SECTION SIX 26
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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 Kevin who played the atheist philosophy professor in God’s Not Dead (2014)
2 Seat in a park
3 Meticulously refurbish, as a car
4 “Gimme ____” (Rolling Stones hit)
5 Movement associated with Andy Warhol: 2 wds.
6 ____ Peninsula (peninsula comprising Spain and Portugal)

Ring 2
• New ____, India
• Snoozed
• Surgical procedures
• Big name in online vacation rentals
• Solemn promise

Ring 3
• Get oneself cleaned up
• High point of a small mound of earth
• Fanatical devotee to a political faction
• Metallic element whose symbol is Fe

Ring 4
• Dried grape
• Bordello
• Certain African mammal, briefly

Ring 5
• It means “tray planting” in Japanese
• Not rude at all

Ring 6
• City on the Mexican border located at the western end of U.S. Highway 62: 2 wds.

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