Wordy Wednesday 586: Section 58

WORDY WEDNESDAY #584
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 27 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #585
PENT WORDS 117 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #586
SECTION SIX 58
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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 International treaties
2 Prince Adam’s alter ego: hyph.
3 Differ
4 Heraldic clover shape
5 Having recently come to be
6 Peptic problem

Ring 2
• Venus Williams’s sport
• Small amount, as of salt
• Islamic pilgrimage destination
• Mistreatment over one’s religion, say
• Payment for a cabbie

Ring 3
• Ryan who is Pat Sajak’s upcoming replacement as host of Wheel of Fortune
• Far from just
• Requires
• Recess for a statue

Ring 4
• Had a sudden failure, as a computer system
• Noisemaker on an ambulance
• Call of Duty: ____ Hour (2004 video game)

Ring 5
• Throw, as a fishing line
• Diabolical

Ring 6
• Kansas City team that won Super Bowl LVIII in 2024

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