| RECTS | Elongated squares, for short |
| TPING | Decorating with white squares, for short |
| RHOMB | Slanted square, for short |
| GMA | TV show broadcast from Times Square, for short |
| RECTANGLE | Elongated square (9) |
| OBLONG | Elongated square or circle |
| RECT | Prefix to 'angle' (Elongated square) |
| ADELIEBREAD | Three squares for the penguin? |
| POLYGONS | Triangles and squares, for example |
| SHAPES | Sculpts triangles and squares, for example (6) |
| MARQUESS | Make squares for nobleman (8) |
| GRIDS | Squares for crossword puzzles (5) |
| TURNSTILE | Goes to lay squares for entrance (9) |
| CHECK | Pattern of crossed lines forming squares for chessboards and textiles such as gingham or plaid (5) |
| LIGHTS | White squares for the answers in crosswords; divisions of mullioned windows; or, the panes of glass in greenhouses and cold frames (6) |
| SPECS | 72 answers and 34 black squares, for this puzzle |
| TAKESTHEEDGEOFF | Alleviates pain a little ... or what this puzzle does to certain squares for literal effect |
| TESSELLATION | Word, from the Greek for "four", thus the Latin for "cube, die, square", for the act or art of perfectly interlocking, mosaicking or tiling shapes, leaving neither spaces nor gaps (12) |
| RETAILSHOP | It's about what the three blind mice are looking for presumably from vault in The Square, for one (6 |
| RESORT | Right to return Rose to Square for the skiers, for one (6) |
