LA Times Crossword
June 5, 2019
Parikshit Bhat

The  answers to the first four clues below will have something in common, as revealed by the fifth clue.

1. Means of going coast-to-coast on the cheap
2. Conglomeration of falsehoods
3. It determines who get the boxing championship ring
4. Statement of one's health - which may or may not be true
5. Influential in a big way

Answers to clues #1-4:

1. RED EYE FLIGHT
2. PACK OF LIES 
3. TITLE FIGHT
4. I FEEL FINE

Answers to what they have in common:

Each answer contains the consecutive, but scrambled, letters of LIFE:

1. red eyE FLIght
2. pack oF LIEs
3. titLE FIght
4. i feEL FIne

Answer to clue #5: LIFE-CHANGING