PUZZLE #372
SECTION SIX 8
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) "Sugar Pie" or "Honeybunch", e.g.: 2 wds.
2) Tiled artwork
3) Too talkative and rude
4) "Gray", "Flay", "Sway", and "Pay", say
5) Vijay Singh, for one
6) Authorized stand-in
RING 2
• Resident of a country formerly known as Siam
• Movie director's audio track on many a DVD
• _____ Puzzler (Game Show Network show based on a specific celebrity magazine's crosswords)
• Steams (up), like eyeglasses
• "Yo! Over here, bub!": 2 wds.
RING 3
• 5 1⁄4-inch computer diskette
• Amorous
• Fifth month in Mexico
• Aviator Howard who once ran RKO Pictures (poorly, I might add)
RING 4
• Bok _____
• Knickknacks' ledge
• Arsonist's favorite Def Leppard album?
RING 5
• Tweety's species
• Like pulp-filled oranges
RING 6
• Naomi Watts' starring role in The Ring (2002)
Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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!
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