Wordy Wednesday 226: Section Six 22

WORDY WEDNESDAY #224

PATHFINDER 8 (answer)

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Michael Avanessian **
Ryan Faley **
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #225

PENT WORDS 45 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #226

SECTION SIX 22

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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 Pressing
2 Record publishing company
3 Mock
4 Withstand
5 "Take It to the ____" (The Eagles song)
6 Manufacturer of the Macan and the Cayenne

Ring 2
* Bring into a country from another
* Extraordinarily powerful or difficult
* Curve over the letter "n" in some Spanish words
* NYPD ____ (1993-2005 crime drama series)
* Sent a telegraph

Ring 3
* Fit for consumption
* Cherry-pick
* One who owes
* The ____ of Venice

Ring 4
* Bully
* Clear as a ____
* Abstaining from sex

Ring 5
* Manga about Ichigo Kurosaki (and not about cleaning products, apparently)
* Word that's used nine times in Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass", each time preceded by "no"

Ring 6
* Catch-22 author Joseph

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What Montoya was played by Mandy Patinkin?
* What's an 8-letter word for "What you call a three-humped camel, as per Disney’s Zootopia"?

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