Wordy Wednesday 426: Section Six 42

WORDY WEDNESDAY #423
PATHFINDER 23 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #424
CODEWORDS 15 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #425
PENT WORDS 85 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #426
SECTION SIX 42
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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 Derringer, for example

2 A city in Pennsylvania

3 Not correct

4 ____ Happened to… Robot Jones? (2002-2004 cartoon)

5 Fear ____ (reality series)

6 Old Faithful, for one

Ring 2

* “____ my dead body!”

* Shawl that might be used as a bedspread

* The ____ Inferno (1974 disaster film)

* Feeling apprehension 

* Feel sorry for

Ring 3

* It may be measured in pounds

* Garden-variety

* They beat deuces

* Footrace participant

Ring 4

* Certain blood vessel

* Boredom

* The ____ Channel (network with Local on the 8s)

Ring 5

* Page listing corrections to a printed work

* “The ____ Takes It All” (ABBA song)

Ring 6

* Harry who wrote the music for the musical 42nd Street, or senator Elizabeth

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 7-letter word for "Electric organ inventor and namesake Laurens"?

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