Face to Lift and Time to Card

I set a little puzzle yesterday – it was one of those where you have two words and you have to change one letter at a time to change the first to the second word – all in four moves. The challenge was:

• Face to Lift
• Hand to Book
• Neck to Ties
• Time to Card
• Left to Hand

Here are some clues:

Face to Lift –

• to tie up a shoe, or a delicate fabric with an open fancy pattern, made by weaving thread with bobbins
• the plural of louse
• the time from birth to death
• Lift!

Hand to book –

• a group of musicians
• a link or the main character of many Ian Fleming novels
• an onomatopaeic noise of something hitting something, often used for a hit on the head
• Book!

Neck to Ties –

• short for Nicholas
• the sound a clock makes
• facial twitches
• Ties!

Time to Card –

• not wild
• a weed, especially among cereal
• to look after someone
• Card!

Left to Hand –

• something which is loaned
• to loan something
• ground where something grows or can be built on
• Hand!

If you still didn’t work it out, then here are the answers:

• Face to Lift – lace/lice/life/lift
• Hand to Book – band/bond/bonk/book
• Neck to Ties – nick/tick/tics/ties
• Time to Card – tame/tare/care/card
• Left to Hand – lent/lend/land/hand