Wordy Wednesday 596: Section Six 59

WORDY WEDNESDAY #594
ANACROSSWORD 38 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #595
PENT WORDS 119 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #596
SECTION SIX 59
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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 One who’s in the red
2 Karate teacher
3 Genus of showy colorful flowers
4 Funeral song
5 Item in a pack
6 Thomas Edison’s middle name

Ring 2
• Minute amount
• Praise
• Key that toggles overtype mode
• Fresh and new
• Drive the getaway car, say

Ring 3
• Mattress topper with square indentations: 2 wds.
• Rodent with a long, flat tail
• “Make a joyful ____ unto the Lord. . .” (Psalm 100:1)
• Lowest point

Ring 4
• Rows ____ (word puzzle invented by Patrick Berry with Rows and Blooms clues)
• Metallic element with the symbol Fe
• Drink

Ring 5
• Songwriter Taupin
• Cloak and ____

Ring 6
• “The 59th Street ____ Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” (Simon and Garfunkel hit named after a span in Manhattan)

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