NEWVEMBER! PUZZLE #205: Diamond Rings

NEWVEMBER!

PUZZLE #205

DIAMOND RINGS

To solve this puzzle, place one letter of each 5-letter answer into the correspondingly-numbered circle (or "ring"), and then put the other four letters into the surrounding diamonds in random order, while also making sure the diamonds' letters correctly overlap with each other. Each horizontal row's rings will have the same position in each answer word for that row (meaning that each ring in one row will be the second letter of each answer, and each ring in another row will be the third letter of each word, and so on). As an additional help, eight of the unshared diamonds have been filled in with letters.

Once the diagram is completely filled in, the letters in the rings, when read left to right, will spell out a clue to the FINAL ANSWER: a person's name

1) Binky from Garfield and Friends or Bozo, for example
2) Cartoonist Guisewite or her comic strip
3) Tree-like Guardians of the Galaxy member with a limited vocabulary
4) Orange soda brand that's a synonym for "compress"
5) Viking from newspaper comics
6) Attacked by a wasp
7) Shrek and his children, e.g.
8) Hit the books for an exam, say
9) Wang _____ ("Dance Hall Days" band)
10) Restaurant lists
11) John who was the first US Vice President
12) Puts it all on the line
13) Ice hockey venues
14) Healing character from Team Fortress 2
15) Video game company who made Pac-Man and Galaga
16) Tuba metal
17) The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, for one
18) Type of music used in many "Weird Al" medleys
19) Boxer Mike who had his own NES game
20) Katharine Hepburn's character in On Golden Pond
21) From the Earth to the Moon author Jules
22) Fast food side that can be crinkle-cut
23) Groovy gorilla playable in the Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
24) Miss _____ (porcine Muppet)
25) Clicking computer tool
26) Yellow egg parts
27) Cartoon Network's Johnny who repeatedly (and violently) fails to pick up women
28) Belgian bucks
29) Leprechaun who's a cereal mascot
30) Pale purple hue

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!