ANSWERS: Helter Skelter 8

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Helter Skelter 8" was posted on this blog, and an impressive eighteen people have solved it since then:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Joe Bernard
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Michael Lebowitz
• Mike Armstrong
• Josie Giles
• Chris Kochmanski
• Sam Levitin
• Steve Gunter
• Wendy Walker
• Tamara Brenner
• KeoFam
• Mom
• Patrick Jordan
• Lynn Sweeney
• Tower

Now head below the break for the answers!

And here are the answers in text format, in case you can't make out the above letters:

1) Bookworm, 2) Medulla, 3) Allude, 4) Unaware, 5) Akron, 6) Rival, 7) Vlasic, 8) Corden, 9) Denim, 10) Iron Man, 11) Milking, 12) Gibb, 13) Bigger, 14) Riddler, 15) Lowlier, 16) Rock, 17) Corncob, 18) Choirs, 19) Hoed, 20) Erie, 21) Enzo, 22) NRA, 23) Ashe

The gray letters unscramble to spell out ORGANIZE