PhotoSUNDAY PUZZLE — Please allow me to bang the gong once again in favor of reading the puzzle title that runs on the Sunday crossword. The title of today’s puzzle by Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis is “Substitutes.” That’s pretty clear, in my opinion. All of these phrases take the form “___ FOR ___,” as in 23A’s PLAY FOR TIME (clued as “Stall”). Advertisement Continue reading the main storyRemember 23A, the clue says, and we have been asked to swap PLAY for TIME. So let’s do that and make the clue “Time of Shakespeare.” The answer is ELIZABETHAN ERA.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2018 22:52 UTC