- DAMSEL
- She's always in distress!
- She's sometimes in distress
- Archaic young maiden
- Fairy tale girl, often
- Distressed character?
- Helpless fairytale character
- Oft-distressed person
- Chivalry beneficiary
- Dragon's typical captive
- ___ in distress
- Victim of melodrama
- Feudal femme, depicted in distress
- Rapunzel, e.g.
- Young maiden who is sometimes in distress
- One in distress?
- Knight's rescuee
- Maiden
- Woman in distress?
- Distressed gal?
- Distressed sort?
- Lass
- Gentle woman
- One in distress, maybe
- Noble woman of old
- Melodrama heroine
- Silent-movie heroine "in distress"
- Maiden of yore
- Melodrama stock character
- Movie maiden "in distress"
- Melodrama maiden
- Silents heroine "in distress"
- Old movie heroine "in distress"
- Girl.
- Fair lady.
- Fair maid.
- Maid of old.
- Young woman
- One oft in distress
- One often in distress
- Girl, to a poet
- Maiden, in old literature
- Distressed lass?
- Distressed one?
- Rescuee, in fairy tales
- Producer of a distress call?
- Woman hoping for a knight in shining armor
- Interest of a knight in shining armor
- Distressed maiden, in fairy tales
- ___ bug (long-limbed predatory insect)
- One stereotypically in distress *EYE ROLL*
- ___ in distress (fairy-tale trope)
- She may be in distress
- Young maiden
- Fair one in fairy tales
- Miss in distress?
- Person in distress
- Fair maiden
- Rapunzel, for one
- I'm a ___, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day. ("Hercules" line)
- Prefix for "fish" or "fly"
- Sufferer of distress, in tales
- Classic sufferer of distress