PUZZLE #163: Section Six 5

PUZZLE #163

SECTION SIX 5

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) Scare the behoozits out of someone
2) Movie studio that distributed Forrest Gump
3) Related (to)
4) Floridian Senator Marco
5) Buzzing instrument
6) Breakable box in the Crash Bandicoot games

RING 2
* Transforming via CGI effects, like in Willow
* Alternative to a Halloween "trick"
* Chess piece required for castling
* What a reindeer is called in North America
* Mortal Kombat character who wields a razor-edged fan (HINT: Her name is one vowel off from a Japanese sword)

RING 3
* Full Metal Jacket director Stanley
* The largest artery
* Type of angle that isn't acute or obtuse
* Country that includes a tourist attraction known as "Dracula's Castle"

RING 4
* Place to hang a fedora: 2 wds.
* _____ Faso, Africa
* Leave out, as from a list

RING 5
* Giant winged insect monster who fought Godzilla
* Elaborate Japanese stage drama

RING 6
* Rasputin's bat-ty sidekick from Anastasia (1997)

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, 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 it 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!