| 100% | DEE | 3 | Letter with the shape of half a pizza |
| 56% | EEL | 3 | Fish with the shape of a snake |
| 55% | FACECARD | 8 | It may be half of a blackjack … with or without the shaded letter |
| 55% | ZORRO | 5 | Swordsman associated with a mark shaped like the first letter of his name |
| 54% | SEMICIRCLE | 10 | Shape of a half-eaten pizza |
| 53% | TNUT | 4 | Fastener in the shape of a letter: Hyph. |
| 49% | BFF | 3 | Person with the other half of a heart necklace, maybe |
| 49% | ESS | 3 | Letter of the alphabet with a double curve |
| 48% | DEE | 3 | Shape of half a circle |
| 48% | BFF | 3 | One with the other half of a broken heart necklace, perhaps (Abbr.) |
| 47% | THREE | 5 | With the circled letters, a literal depiction of what you need to win tic-tac-toe? |
| 47% | PSALMS | 6 | Book of the Bible that starts with a silent letter |
| 46% | TWO | 3 | Approximate shape of this puzzle's white squares ... and a synonym of the circled letters |
| 46% | IOU | 3 | Back half of a 5 letter sequence that starts with "AE" |
| 46% | ARC | 3 | The shape of a rainbow |
| 46% | OMEGA | 5 | Last letter of the Greek alphabet that's shaped like a horseshoe |
| 45% | CHA | 3 | Half of a "Dancing With the Stars" dance |
| 45% | DIAMOND | 7 | The shape of a baseball field |
| 45% | SEMI | 4 | The shape of a protractor, __-circle |
| 45% | SHEERAN | 7 | Ed __ is "in love with the shape of you" |
| 45% | IRAN | 4 | Country that shares the first three letters of its name with a neighboring country |
| 44% | ABC | 3 | Letters with the 2 on a phone keypad |
| 44% | ARC | 3 | Having the shape of a rainbow |
| 44% | ARCED | 5 | In the shape of a rainbow |
| 44% | STICKY | 6 | With 58-Across, predicament, and a description of both halves of the starred answers |
| 43% | CRUCIFORM | 9 | Something having the shape of a cross |
| 43% | GLOBULAR | 8 | Spherical, having the shape of a ball |
| 43% | IGLOO | 5 | Home in the shape of a dome |
| 43% | PEAR | 4 | Fruit in the shape of a bulb |
| 43% | CYGNETRING | 10 | Jewelry in the shape of a swan? |