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Enjoy J. Smith-Cameron’s Martini-Themed Crossword Puzzle ‘With a Twist’


An excerpt from A24’s new book of puzzles, 99 TV Crosswords.

Then the actor Ray Dooley and I were in a play at Yale Rep in the late ’80s, and the cast often commuted back and forth by train from NYC to New Haven. And so when I was asked to collaborate on a puzzle for A24’s new collection 99 TV Crosswords, I thought about Gerri’s go-to drink on Succession, the martini, as a theme. I wondered if the puzzlemeisters Kate Hawkins and Rachel Fabi could somehow carve out the shape of a classic martini glass in the negative spaces; I was delighted that they chuckled and said “Of course!

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