Boy noticed the German editor had damaged stockings (8)
I believe the answer is:
laddered
'damaged stockings' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'boy noticed the german editor' is the wordplay.
'boy' becomes 'lad' (informal term for boy).
'noticed the german' becomes 'der' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'editor' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation).
'lad'+'der'+'ed'='LADDERED'
'had' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for laddered that I've seen before include "Descriptive of a stocking with a run" , "Guided around snake" , "23 25 [WARDROBE MALFUNCTION] perhaps?" , "Unravelled, stocking for instance" , "(Of tights or stockings) having a run" .)