NY Times Crossword
April 22, 2018
Ross Trudeau (adapted)
(Title shown below)

The answers to the clues below are familiar phrases - but altered by removing a single letter from one word and adding it to another. The transposed letter is the same in every answer.

1. Makes eye contact before undressing
2. Parent wearing your Superman costume
3. Script suggestion about starting the fight scene
4. Was harder for the bronco buster to hold onto
5. Like the digit "0" in 2018

HINT:
The transposed letter is E.

Answers:

1. Stares and strips (Stars and Stripes)
2. Father in one's cape (Feather in one's cap)
3. Note a moment to spar (Not a moment to spare)
4. Had less horse mane (Headless Horseman)
5. Least but not last (Last but not least) 

TITLE (a perfect pun): PLUSES AND MINUSES
                                        (PLUS Es AND MINUS Es)