Natasha Lyonne waxes rhapsodic about crosswords after debuting her own NY Times puzzle
Natasha Lyonne is best known for her roles in TV shows like Russian Doll and Orange Is The New Black, as well as classic late-’90s movies like Slums Of Beverly Hills and But I’m A Cheerleader. Now, having made her debut as a crossword creator for The New York Times this week, she’s ready to take a break from talking about boring stuff like acting and writing to take an opportunity to discuss a more important topic: the joy of answering cryptic trivia questions by writing words into little interconnected squares.
In an article by Alexandria Symonds, Lyonne is described as “a devoted Times crossword solver for about five years.” (You can tell this is serious business by the use of the term “solver.”) “I feel a deep transparency about how true my love of the puzzle is; I feel very clean about it,” Lyonne says, later describing crosswords as “a great joy in my life.”