Wordy Wednesday 526: Section Six 52

WORDY WEDNESDAY #523
ANACROSSWORD 29 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #524
ANACROSSWORD 30 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #525
PENT WORDS 105 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #526
SECTION SIX 52
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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 Turned down
2 Exam
3 Comic Graham who hosted the game show Cram
4 Video in which footage is sped up: 2 wds.
5 Saturday Night Live alum Carvey
6 Certain courtroom employee, briefly

Ring 2
* Signify
* Sink or ____
* Three-____ sloth
* Agreeable
* Yarn

Ring 3
* Argue
* Pair
* Perfect
* ____ by Me (1986 film starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix)

Ring 4
* Vice President Stevenson
* Record label named after a nickname for Detroit
* They connect muscles to bones

Ring 5
* Chinese dumpling
* Cured sausage that’s common in sandwiches

Ring 6
* Presidential surname shared by Cindy and Ricky of The B-52’s

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