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There are a lot of crossword constructors who publish/sell their puzzles independently on the Internet, and often they create both puz and pdf files. Some sources of free ones:

- Brendan Emmett Quigley: https://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/

- Paolo Pasco: http://gridsthesedays.blogspot.com/

- and see the sidebar of Paolo's blog for links to many more constructors

- They stopped publishing these online, but the Chronicle of Higher Education has several old crosswords here: https://www.chronicle.com/section/Crosswords/43

I wanted to ship it with an original demo puzzle but construction is really hard! That's on the roadmap for the future.

Oh also: if you're an NY Times crossword subscriber, you can download any of their puzzles as .puz files.

Feel free to include http://levien.com/Social%20rule.puz , which has a Recurse theme. It's not top quality but I've had a number of people tell me they enjoy it.

Raph! I loved that puzzle (and I've solved it in cursewords)! I may try to get together a collection of freely licensed demo puzzles, and I'd be honored to include this.

a few of the download links here work (try the washington post e.g.): https://crosswordfiend.com/download/