PUZZLE #9: Section 6

PUZZLE #9

SECTION 6

You see, it fits because "6" is "9" upside-down... oh, forget it. I'll just get to the (rather lengthy) directions...

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 outermost 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 figure out. 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. Once you're done, unscramble the six spaces with stars in them to get the FINAL ANSWER.

Special thanks to Grant Fikes for making this grid

RING 1
1) Someone who's not a leader
2) Pianist Eddy and his son Peter
3) Ben Kingsley won an Oscar playing him
4) Go past the date on a milk carton
5) "That's What's Happening" in an episode of Schoolhouse Rock
6) Hindu beggar

RING 2
* Foxy lady?
* Concealing
* Turin has a famous one
* Lupine
* Animal House college

RING 3
* ______ Mouf (Ludacris album)
* Representation of health in many fighting games
* Free codec software that's an anagram of its biggest competitor
* "______-a-go-go, baby!" (Viewtiful Joe's catchphrase)

RING 4
* '90s sex symbol Lanzoni
* Common facial expressions of Squidward
* "If 6 Was 9" musician

RING 5
* Someone trying to impress others with their abilities
* Pickle juice

RING 6
* The King of the Koopas

Once you think you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com and I'll give you credit for solving it roughly two weeks from now. You can also use those email addresses to give me feedback on my puzzle or send me the FINAL ANSWER to last week's puzzle (which you can solve either here or here). If you want a version of this puzzle you can print out, click on "read more" for just that!