[Solution] Climbing the Ladder – 6 June 2022

This is a laddergram puzzle. Each answer on the left can be scrambled with one additional letter to give the answers in the middle column, which can likewise be anagrammed with one additional letter to give the answers on the right. The added letters can be placed in the in-between columns to give this grid:

The completed grid

Reading down the two columns of added letters spells out SOLUTION DEJECTED. Hopefully this puzzle didn’t leave you feeling that way.