SOS

• ___ pad

• ___ yer old man!

• ...

• ...___...

• ...- - -..., to Morse

• ...---...

• [Help!]

• [I'm in trouble here!]

• [I'm really tired of being a castaway]

• *Rihanna, 2006

• ___ Pacific (1959)

• ___ Titanic (1979 film)

• ___ Titanic (1979 movie)

• ___ yer ol' man!

• ___ your mama; retort in the streets

• ___ your mama! (insulting comeback)

• ___ your old man!

• ...and ___ yours!

• '___ Titanic' (1979 TV movie)

• '70s Abba song

• '75 Abba tune

• 'Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot'

• 'Help us!'

• 'Help, Hornblower!'

• 'Help!,' asea

• 'Mayday!'

• 'Rescue us!'

• 'Send help!'

• 'Titanic' call

• Come and get us!

• elp! Kelp!

• Emergency!

• Gilligan's Island signal

• H-E-L-P!

• Hel-l-l-lp!

• Help wanted!

• Help wanted letters

• Help, quick!

• Help! (and this puzzle's title)

• Help! at sea

• Help! letters

• Help! on the high seas

• Help!, to a sailor

• I'll send an ___ to the world (Police lyric)

• I'll send an ___ to the world (repeated lyric in Message in a Bottle)

• I'll send an ___ to the world (The Police line)

• I'm foundering!

• M'aidez, e.g.

• Mamma Mia! number

• Mamma Mia! song

• Mayday! Mayday!

• Mayday! cousin

• Mayday! relative

• Mayday! signal

• Message in a Bottle refrain word

• Message in a Bottle word

• Save me!

• Send a rescue ship!

• Send help now

• Send the Coast Guard!

• Sending out an ___ (much-repeated line in a Police hit)

• Sending out an ___ (repeated Police lyric)

• Titanic message

• We need help!

• Wedding ___ (reality TV series)

• 1975 ABBA hit

• 2006 Rihanna hit

• 2007 Jonas Brothers song

• 911 at sea

• 911 call

• 911 call, e.g.

• 911 on the ocean

• A message from the Titanic

• A sea plea

• ABBA hit

• Abba hit of 1975

• Abba hit song, 1975

• Abba hit that starts Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find

• ABBA number

• Abba song

• ABBA tune

• ABBA tune off Gold

• ABBA's only palindromic hit

• Alarming letters

• Alert asea

• Alert for the Coast Guard

• Alert of a sort

• An obvious cry for help

• Atlantic plea

• Bad sea signal

• Big name in scouring pads

• Brand found in the kitchen

• Brand invented by an aluminum pot salesman

• Brand of scouring pad

• Brand of soap pads

• Brief distress signal

• Brillo alternative

• Brillo competitor

• Brillo pad competitor

• Brillo rival

• Brillo shelfmate

• Call at sea, maybe

• Call for aid

• Call for assistance

• Call for help

• Call from the distressed

• Call from Titanic

• Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day?

• Call in a calamity

• Call in a watery calamity

• Call letters

• Call of desperation

• Call to the Coast Guard

• Call to the U.S.C.G.

• Caost Guard pickup

• Captain's I need help ASAP!

• Captain's cry

• Castaway's call

• Castaway's letters

• Castaway's message

• Castaway's note

• Castaway's sand scrawl

• Castaways signal

• Certain smoke signal

• Clorox brand

• Clorox cleaning product

• Coast Guard alert

• Coast Guard concern

• Code alert

• Coded message

• Coded plea

• Common Morse message

• Common Morse-code message

• Cousin of Mayday!

• Cousin of 911

• CQD replacer

• CQD successor

• Cry for help

• Cry when going down?

• Dashed-off message?

• Dashed-off plea?

• Desperate call

• Desperate call, for short

• Desperate characters?

• Desperate plea

• Desperate trio?

• Disaster signal

• Distress call

• Distress call at sea

• Distress call from a ship

• Distress call letters

• Distress letters

• Distress message

• Distress signal

• Distress signal letters

• Distressing letters

• Distressing letters found 9 times in this puzzle

• Dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit

• Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot

• Emergency broadcast

• Emergency call

• Emergency call to the Coast Guard

• Emergency letters

• Emergency letters at sea

• Emergency message

• Familiar telegraphy sequence

• Flare, maybe

• Flare, perhaps

• Flashed message

• Foundering call

• Foundering plea

• Helmsman's 'Help!'

• Help call

• Help found inside eight puzzle answers

• Help plea from the sea

• Help signal at sea

• Help wanted ad?

• Help wanted advertisement?

• Help wanted announcement?

• Help wanted notice

• Help wanted sign?

• Help-wanted indication

• Help-wanted letters

• Help-wanted request

• Hit song by ABBA

• International call?

• International signal that replaced CQD

• Intl. distress letters

• Intl. signal adopted in 1912

• It may be tapped out

• It may be tapped out at sea

• It may go up in smoke

• It might be sent from a bridge

• It replaced CQD

• It's sometimes written in the sand

• Kin of 911

• Kin of 911 call

• Kind of pad

• Kitchen pad

• Letters addressed to airplanes?

• Letters for help

• Letters from desperate people

• Letters from the high seas

• Letters in the sand, perhaps

• Letters in the sand?

• Letters of desperation?

• Letters of distress

• Letters seeking aid

• Line from the Titanic

• Line in the sand?

• Long-distance call?

• Lusitania's last gasp

• Lusitania's signal

• M'aidez!

• Main message?

• Marine mayday

• Marine broadcast

• Marine counterpart of Mayday!

• Mariner's 'Mayday!'

• Mariner's Help!

• Mariner's call for help

• Mariner's distress call

• Mariner's distress signal

• Mariner's signal

• Maritime Help!

• Maritime distress call

• Maritime distress signal

• Maritime message

• Marooned person's message

• May Day!

• Mayday call

• Mayday letters

• Mayday letters featured in this puzzle's theme answers

• Mayday rel.

• Mayday!, once

• Mayday's kin

• Message frantically tapped out

• Message from a bridge

• Message from a desert isle, perhaps

• Message from the Titanic

• Message in a bottle

• Message in a bottle, maybe

• Message in a bottle, perhaps?

• An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

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