ANSWERS: Honeycomb 5

Roughly two weeks have gone by since "Honeycomb 5" was posted on this blog, and an impressively high twenty-one people have solved it since then, as you can see in the list below:

• Cindy Heisler
• Grant Fikes
• Joe Bernard
• Chris Kochmanski
• Pavel Curtis
• Kevin Orfield
• Mike Armstrong
• Sam Levitin
• KeoFam
• Tamara Brenner
• Tyler Hinman
• Patrick Jordan
• Thomas Boatwright
• Steve Gunter
• Mom
• Perry Groot
• Lynn Sweeney
• Shannon Milbourne
• Michael Lebowitz
• Wendy Walker
• Al Sisti

Now head below the break for the answers!

1) GEISEL, 2) LENORE, 3) REWORK, 4) RAMBLE, 5) GEL PEN, 6) JINGLE, 7) JERKED, 8) DARKEN, 9) MADAME, 10) PETITE, 11) NINETY, 12) JINXED, 13) DENISE, 14) DARWIN, 15) MARIES, 16) IMPACT, 17) TIMELY, 18) LYNXES, 19) EXERTS, 20) TWISTY, 21) WRIGHT, 22) IGNORE, 23) EXEMPT, 24) PIXELS, 25) SPHERE, 26) TREATY, 27) THIRTY, 28) HIDING, 29) MEXICO, 30) CIPHER, 31) REHEAT, 32) AT REST, 33) RIDDLE, 34) COPPER, 35) ERASER, 36) STRAIN, 37) HANSEL

The letters in the colored hexagons, when read counterclockwise, read out PHOBIC