Falstaff loved this bed (4)

Guardian Cryptic #29555 | 18 Across | 2024-12-02
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Sack is an old name for a kind of fortified wine; Falstaff praises it in the line “If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.” Sack is also slang for a bed, as in “hit the sack”

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