Raddle

The backward ladder from OFF to BASE is a tidy conceit, but the clues lean soft—where's the trick that forces real wordplay?

Nice little break: you can nibble one rung at a time, and the baseball theme makes it feel like a cozy snack between innings.

I'd love a per-clue solve-rate column—this ladder looks beatable, but I can't tell which rung is the real out unless I see the splits.

The rhyming soup clue is the kind of cheeky, sound-aware wordplay I'd underline twice, and the baseball theme gives the ladder a nice curve.