Each of these was designed as a diagramless -- the best part of the challenge is figuring out the grid. If you need a hint, there is a link to get the starting square of each puzzle. If you've never done this type of crossword before, you can find a few tips at The Mining Company's crossword site.
You can also download either of these for the Across Lite helper application, which is free from Literate Software Systems. If you do this, you will get the grid as well, so you will see it as a regular crossword. This is how you can see the solution.
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ACROSS DOWN ------ ---- 1 Take ___ off one's feet 1 Carter daughter 6 Where runs score 2 Meadow 10 Mudville poem by Thayer 3 Choose 14 Model or brain teaser 4 Hgt. 15 Detest 5 Converse of dit 17 Gentlemen 6 Half of Cong. 18 The Red 7 "___ the land of the free..." 20 Finish 8 Drink that is steeped 22 City in Wash. 9 ___ tide 23 TV overseer 10 Thin rope 24 Spoil 11 Promise 26 Teut. 12 "If I only had ___" 27 Many milleniums 13 Rocky peaks 29 Wade opponent 14 ___ nez 30 Musical gp. in the 70's 16 Kitchen utensil 31 Soak flax 17 Keystone sacker 32 Mail stop on a train rte. 19 Home of baseball's Hall of Fame 33 Fire 21 Where Terry and Mays played 34 Granny, in Bonn 22 The Little Colonel of baseball 36 What a dog shaked with 23 Giant Saint? 37 Chi. trains 25 Longtime Red Sox owner 39 "___ away we go!" 26 Four-run homer 40 P.E. room 28 Strikeout record holder 41 "All for ___ ..." 33 First to stab Caesar 42 Cheerleader's word 35 Sufficient 43 Tech. degree 36 Lecterns 44 Knock 38 Sand bar 45 He defeated 58 Across twice 56 Adored 46 ___ Cat (winter vehical) 57 Printers' mistakes 47 F.B.I.'s cousin 59 Less fresh 48 Hooter 60 The eagle, on a quarter 49 Mideast rep. 66 Gabor and Braun 50 ___-la-la 68 Floor square 51 Burro 72 Actress Merkel 52 Hawaiian guitar, for short 73 Docs 53 Pub drink 74 Rush hour problem 54 Popeye's Olive ___ 75 Verse form 55 Animator's sheet 77 Call ___ day 57 Abilene-to-Fort Worth dir. 78 Sea bird 58 Dem. candidate in the 50's 79 Moo ___ gai pan 60 "The ___ Dogs," Burns poem 80 Not divisible exactly by two 61 Shoulder: comb. form 81 American suspense writer 62 Prepd. 63 Rockies' hr. or min. 64 Raggedy one 65 Declares 67 Skip the restaurant 69 Leningrad's river 70 White flower 71 Statistic 74 Grey and McCrea 76 Player at Jack Murphy Stadium 82 Where Houston fans root 83 Battery terminal
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By Daniel Seidman
Edited by Eugene Maleska
Published in the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, September 10, 1989
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1 Have a portrait taken *1 "It's only a ___ moon"
*5 Lumber (note the number!) 2 Cat-___-tails
9 ___ Fe 3 Place
10 More concise 4 Nobleman
12 Sharp sword 5 Solder
13 Distance covered 6 What is mined
14 Roman satirist 7 Siouan Indian
15 Rear 8 Danseuse painter
16 Neon or argon 9 Famed London theater
17 Instructed *10 Ear or type preceder
18 A long, long time 11 Musical pause
19 Superlative ending 12 Former home run champ
20 Guisewite's comic strip 13 Camera maker
21 Hobgoblin 14 Protrude
24 Site of the '68 Dem. convention 15 Ariz. Indians
*25 Lone Ranger's horse 17 Clothier
27 Medium for Grant Wood 18 Reverse curve
29 Hard to climb *20 What Mao fought Chiang for
30 Ere long 22 Hot place
31 Any one of the starred clues 23 Acute
39 Touched down 24 Glass holder
40 Falls in torrents 26 Fighting Engineers of Troy, N.Y.
42 Central point 28 Upward bend, in shipbuilding
43 Materials for securing 32 Big truck
45 Part of r.p.m. 33 Runs off to marry
46 Type of tie 34 Passenger
47 Ranch animal 35 Family M.D.'s
50 Leg 36 Minuscule amount
53 Wrath 37 Source of Astor wealth
54 Affixes 38 Activity for Spade
57 Eggs 41 Fun
58 Apt 44 Marie ou Anne: Abbr.
*60 Ball field 47 Quarrier's quarry
61 Giving temporarily 48 Camper's home
63 Knight ___ 49 Finale
64 Sags *50 Play by O'Neill: 1921
65 "That's ___" 51 Prevent
66 Leaf bearer 52 Estate
67 Rave's counterpart 54 Terra ___
55 He overtook 12 Down
56 Clever
58 Erase, with "out"
59 Switch positions
60 Precious
62 "___, a deer..."
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By Daniel Seidman
Edited by Eugene Maleska
Published in the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, July 15, 1990
And
here's a simple 8x8, with a twist to it.