Wordy Wednesday 616: Section Six 61

WORDY WEDNESDAY #614
SUDOKUROSTIC 5 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #615
PENT WORDS 123 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #616
SECTION SIX 61
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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 “We hold these truths to be self-____. . .”
2 The diameter of a bullet
3 Muddy ooze
4 Nearly
5 Sleep soundly?
6 Sully

Ring 2
• Prove
• Certain kitchen appliance
• Something gigantic
• Flowery Hawaiian garlands
• White whale species

Ring 3
• ____ Hill (survival horror video game franchise)
• Conservative talk radio host Mark
• Deck used for fortune telling
• Romeo’s last name in Romeo and Juliet

Ring 4
• Robot
• Deed, as to a vehicle
• ____ of Dogs (2018 stop-motion film directed by Wes Anderson)

Ring 5
• Bert’s favorite breakfast item on Sesame Street
• Large beer mug

Ring 6
• Baseball great Mickey portrayed by Thomas Jane in the 2001 sports movie 61*

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