PUZZLE #29: Section Six 2

PUZZLE #29

SECTION SIX 2

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: a six-letter word.

RING 1
1) Yoga positions named after a flower
2) Barnabas Collins, for one
3) Accessory frequently carried by Barnabas Collins
4) "Gargantua" lava monster from Yoshi's Island and Tetris Attack
5) Cloth placed on one's lap
6) Correspond: 2 wds.

RING 2
* He was once killed off by Doomsday (he got better)
* The plastic thingy at the tip of this shoe part is called an "aglet"
* Type of vocals used in Reel 2 Real's "I Like to Move It"
* The Brain's "insane" sidekick
* Poetic pairs of lines

RING 3
* Wrestler John who appeared on boxes of Fruity Pebbles
* With "The", Australian electronica duo who sang about "My People"
* Green Tiny Toon Adventures character who had his own short-lived spin-off series
* "_____ Falls" (Vaudeville sketch famously performed by the Three Stooges)

RING 4
* Not smooth, like old film
* What A _____ (Ben & Jerry's flavor)
* Type of tree that grew out of Dog's head in an episode of CatDog

RING 5
* Saving, like Chip & Dale's Rangers
* What Oxy and Proactiv are used to treat

RING 6
* This author's zodiac sign (Free Hint: my birthday is three days after I post this!)

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net (the main email for my home computer) or itsredhead64@gmail.com (the main email for my tablet and whenever I'm not at home) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in roughly two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already solved it (but make sure you do so before this Sunday!). If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!