Ah, Saturdays. People are always amazed when they find out that I do Saturday crosswords, but really, they're not that much harder than Fridays once you get used to the extremely misleading cluing and often obscure but gettable references. Sure, there are occasionally impossible Saturdays (one that contained tons of Russian names AND obscure scientific references leaps to mind), but that really is rare.
Today featured two decent puzzles. I'm going to make this quick today. I liked the NYT much more than the LAT today; the LAT was just dull to do, and a wee bit too easy. The NYT had some great fill today, including four adjacent squares of Z's! I've never seen that before. LAT gets **, NYT gets ***1/2.
Winner: NYT, easily.
Best clue: The NYT had some really solid fill. One clue that stood out to me was "He said 'You are free and that is why you are lost'" for FRANZ KAFKA. Very cool quote. Another one is from the LAT and was "'Freestyle' performer, perhaps" for RAPPER. Like it a lot, but not as much as the Kafka clue.
Worst clue: From the LAT today comes "Up in the air" for UNSET. Unset?! Icky word.
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