PUZZLE #76: 5-Star Stumper

PUZZLE #76

5-STAR STUMPER

This one's inspired by the "Stars and Stripes" puzzle that I've seen a couple of times in GAMES Magazine, though the grid used there is different than the one I made for this puzzle (and a lot larger, too). If you're curious as to what this puzzle entails, read on for the directions!

The answer to each numbered pair of clues go in the 10 spaces surrounding each correspondingly numbered star in the grid. The first answer of each set starts in the appropriately numbered space (with the arrow in the same space telling you which direction to go), and the second answer follows immediately after. Meanwhile, the answers that go in the red stripe surrounding the grid are clued in order, and even though it's up to you to determine where the chain of answers begins, we can tell you that the red stripe's answers go clockwise.

Once the entire grid has been filled in, reading the white spaces from left to right and top to bottom will reveal this week's FINAL ANSWER: Something to do with the number "76"

STARS
1) The Mouse and the Motorcycle author Cleary
    Rizzo from the Muppets, for one
2) Telenovela actress Longoria
    Holding your breath might get rid of these
3) Joel or Benji from Good Charlotte
    Diagram that involves overlapping circles
4) Sierra Mist competitor
    202, in Ancient Rome
5) Quarterback Joe who was in a Noxzema commercial with Farrah Fawcett
    "Mudflap" or "Material" follower

RED STRIPE
* Explorer Amerigo, for whom America is named after
* Comcast or Charter, e.g.
* "Correctamundo!"
* Diary of _____ Black Woman (Madea's first film)
* Home of the Nuggets
* Minor My Little Pony character often seen with Bon Bon (EXTRA CLUE FOR NON-BRONIES: Harp constellation)

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about 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 figured that one out. 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!