PUZZLE #426
SECTION SIX 9
One of the clues in this puzzle contains a word suggested by Patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at $15 or more per month to suggest one word or phrase for me to put into a puzzle every month!
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, and each answer’s starting points are marked with a dot [•]. However, which direction they proceed in is for you to figure out. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you figure out the letters in 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) Law force that Riggs and Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon work for: Abbr.
2) Goro from Squid Girl, e.g. (HINT: he saves beachgoers from drowning)
3) Key & Peele's Peele
4) Places to insert quarters in an arcade game cabinet
5) Furry alien that worships C-3PO as a god
6) Commandments (anagram of PETER'S PC)
RING 2
• Spaceley's Space _____ (business where George Jetson works)
• Answered a "Help Wanted" ad
• Part of "FDA" or "DEA"
• Retired NBA player Kidd who currently coaches the Dallas Mavericks
• Shakespearean synonym for "resided"
RING 3
• Swamps, marshes, and bogs
• Arbitrated
• Michelangelo sculpture enshrined in Vatican City
• Hybrid cutlery that gets turned into a toy in Toy Story 4
RING 4
• 2011 Lady Gaga single named after a Biblical betrayer
• MTV and MeTV, for two
• Lukewarm, like a reaction or room-temperature water
RING 5
• Wide receiver Terrell in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Gas giant with moons named Callisto and Io
RING 6
• "_____ Funk" (#1 song by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars)
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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