CIRCULAR M🟢NTH!
PUZZLE #293
SECTION SIX 7
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.
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| Special thanks to Grant Fikes for making this grid for me |
RING 1
1) Perhaps (or perhaps not)
2) Metal thingy at the tip of a hose
3) Umbrella-wielding foe of Batman
4) "That's not what I _____ to say!"
5) The last letter in "UFO"
6) #1 Blondie song that ends with Debbie Harry rapping
RING 2
* Make water fizzy with SodaStream, say
* 12-year-old guitar-playing main character of Pixar's Coco
* "Girl of the 21st Century" from a 1999 Disney Channel movie (whose name sounds like the 54th element)
* Equine on packs of Fruit Stripe gum
* Entice
RING 3
* Mercedes-_____
* Pea or peanut, for one
* Napoleon's surname
* Passover bread
RING 4
* Okra soup
* Sequestered
* Commit check fraud, e.g. (on a side note, please don't ever commit check fraud)
RING 5
* Knotted snack
* Latin dance-based fitness program that inspired a series of Nintendo Wii "exer-games"
RING 6
* Round button pressed by contestants on Press Your Luck and other game shows
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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
