ANSWERS: Puzzle in the Round 4

Thirteen days have gone by since "Puzzle in the Round 4" was published on this blog, and just like last week's answer post, eighteen people have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Giovanni Pagano
• Dave C
• Joe Bernard
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Sam Levitin
• Karen Spencer
• Tamara Brenner
• Tyler Hinman
• Stephen Potter 
• Al Sisti
• Wendy Walker
• Mom and Alex Milton
• Lynn Sweeney
• Peter Abide

Now head below the break for the answers!

1) Catty, 2) Yacht, 3) Acute, 4) Utica, 5) Stain, 6) Vista, 7) Pieta, 8) Paint, 9) Brett, 10) Tribe, 11) Otter, 12) Trent, 13) Trios, 14) First, 15) Short, 16) Torus, 17) Thugs, 18) South, 19) Cults, 20) Tulsa, 21) Boast, 22) Astro, 23) Taser, 24) Start

The letters in the outermost ring spell out THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET

Solver Sam Levitin said "Love these puzzles. Lots of context and the ability to back solve."