LA Times Crossword
June 19, 2019
Lewis Rothlein
DOUBLE SHIFTS

In this word ladder, you have to go from DOUBLE to SHIFTS - a clever hint to what is required to make this word ladder work. Using the clues below, can you figure out what's going on?

1. DOUBLE
2. Tabloid item, husband and wife, etc.
3. Two-door cars
4. Thin pancakes
5. Underground tombs
6. Arts partner at day camp
7. Wanders off the straight and narrow, also snow piles
8. SHIFTS

Answers:

1. DOUBLE
2. COUPLE
3. COUPES
4. CREPES
5. CRYPTS
6. CRAFTS
7. DRIFTS
8. SHIFTS

Explanation: You have to change two letters of each word to get the next word - hence the hint DOUBLE SHIFTS.