- SOS
- Mayday!
- Rihanna hit with a Soft Cell sample
- ____ your old man!
- ... --- ...
- 911 call
- Brillo alternative
- Call to the USCG
- Titanic's message
- Send help!
- Kitchen pad
- Morse message
- Pot-scrubber's aid
- A message from the Titanic
- Castaway's call
- Help!
- Mayday letters
- __ your old man!
- ... _____ ...
- Morse signal
- Help! I can't swim!
- I'm stranded on an island and all I have are rocks!
- 15-Across meaning, perhaps
- ___ (Rescue Me)
- Request for help asea
- Letters addressed to anyone at all
- Letters in the sand
- Help wanted sign?
- We're going to drown!
- Big name in steel wool
- Common Morse message
- Letters in the sand, at times
- Plea at sea
- Help summons, asea
- Letters addressed to a helicopter, perhaps
- Giant letters spelled out in rocks on a beach
- Letters etched in sand
- Plea to a passing airplane
- Call for help
- Sea plea
- ___ yer ol' man!
- Signal first used in 1909
- I'm drowning
- I'm in trouble here!
- We're in trouble, briefly
- 1975 #1 hit song with the lyrics "the love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
- Brillo rival
- Rihanna hit of 2006 or Abba hit of 1975
- Scotch-Brite rival
- Shipwreck signal
- Sinking feeling outburst?
- We're drowning here
- We're taking on water!
- We're in trouble here, briefly
- Pad name
- CQD updated
- Desperate code message
- Help wanted!
- Strong pad
- Distress call
- I'm drowning here, people!
- We're drowing here
- We're in big trouble!
- 1975 hit by 51-Across
- Message in a bottle, maybe
- Dashed-off plea?
- Dashed-off message?
- Save me!
- Soap-pad brand
- Call sent in Morse
- Marine "Mayday!"
- Call that doesn't actually stand for anything
- Brillo counterpart
- Brillo competitor
- Scrubber brand
- Mayday! relative
- Titanic plea
- Help wanted ad?
- Distress signal
- Distress signal letters
- Signal for help
- International signal that replaced CQD
- Call for assistance
- International call?
- Sinking ship's signal
- Urgent request to the USCG
- Castaway's message
- Common Morse-code message
- Marine broadcast
- Morse-code message
- 1975 ABBA hit
- Act II duet in "Mamma Mia!"
- Under-the-sink brand
- What the Coast Guard may pick up
- Help-wanted letters
- 3B sounds identical to it
- It has nine tones
- What a signal mirror might signal
- Indication that one is going down, maybe
- It may be tapped out
- It might accompany a flare at sea
- Aptly-named Apple Watch emergency calling feature
- Call after turning turtle
- Call often improperly rendered as an abbreviation
- Don't leave me stranded!
- Please send someone
- I need you now!
- I'm bailing here, maybe
- We're pretty much sunk
- ___ yer old man!
- Coast Guard alert
- Help wanted notice
- Maritime distress signal
- Mariner's "Mayday!"
- Message from the Titanic
- Message in a bottle, perhaps?
- Ship's plea
- Sinking ship's call
- ...- - -..., to Morse
- Palindromic plea
- Tapped-out message
- Urgent call for help
- Help!, on the high seas
- Call to the Coast Guard
- USCG signal
- Mayday! signal
- Mayday letters featured in this puzzle's theme answers
- Nine-part plea
- Request to the USCG
- Alert asea
- Nine-symbol plea
- Message to the Coast Guard
- One of five "M'aidez!" ("Help me!") pleas in this puzzle
- Mamma Mia! song
- Call for aid
- Cry for help
- Letters of distress
- Mayday! Mayday!
- Brillo shelfmate
- Pad in the kitchen
- Rescue request
- Call from the distressed
- Distress call letters
- Marine counterpart of "Mayday!"
- Ship's call for help
- CQD successor
- Clorox cleaning product
- Coded plea
- Desperate call, for short
- Emergency message
- Kind of pad
- Nautical counterpart of "Mayday!"
- Pad around the kitchen
- Alert for the Coast Guard
- Distress letters
- Pad at a sink
- Titanic message
- Emergency!
- Help wanted signal
- Maritime plea
- Shortest-named ABBA single
- Help, we're sinking!
- Rihanna song with the line "someone come and rescue me"
- ___ your face!
- Letters from someone who's scared shipless?
- Seafaring solicitation
- I've got a sinking feeling, but more urgent?
- Help! at sea
- Alarming letters
- Urgent letters
- ___ your old man!
- Relief request
- Caost Guard pickup
- Message from a bridge
- Titanic transmission
- Sailor's distress signal
- Coast Guard pickup
- Seaman's distress signal
- Help! (and this puzzle's title)
- Message in a bottle?
- Only hit song for which title and artist are both palindromes
- Request to be rescued
- Sailor's call for help
- __ Titanic: 1979 film
- Brand found in the kitchen
- It may go up in smoke
- Letters from the high seas
- Letters in the sand, perhaps
- Main message?
- Mariner's distress call
- Ocean's "911"
- Brand invented by an aluminum pot salesman
- Mariner's distress signal
- One might be received on a bridge
- Seaman's "Help!"
- Stranded traveler's signal, perhaps
- Urgent call at sea
- Familiar telegraphy sequence
- Flare, perhaps
- 2006 Rihanna hit
- Help-wanted request
- It might be sent from a bridge
- Mariner's "Help!"
- Scrubbing brand
- Mamma Mia number
- Flare, maybe
- Kin of a 911 call
- Message in a storm
- One might be picked up in a storm
- Sailor's "Mayday!"
- Seaman's "911"
- Seaman's call for assistance
- Captain's "I need help ASAP!"
- Emergency letters
- Popular pad
- Titanic signal
- 33-Across brand
- Desperate letters
- Help found inside eight puzzle answers
- Pot-scrubbing brand
- Signal for immediate assistance
- Universal signal since 1908
- Urgent offshore signal
- Letters to the Coast Guard
- Sign of trouble
- Tapped-out letters
- Help! letters
- Brand name that looks like it has a missing period
- Letters of urgency
- Palindromic 33-Down hit
- Sea plea, briefly
- Scouring pad brand
- Sea captain's "Help!"
- Sinking ship signal
- Main signal
- Nine-tap signal
- Plea at sea, briefly
- Palindromic call for help
- Response to a sinking feeling?
- Urgent distress signal
- Distress signal at sea
- Emergency signal
- Signal of distress
- Song on the album "ABBA"
- Three-letter product with two periods
- Maritime emergency letters
- Sailor's "Help!"
- USCG reception
- Help! on the briny
- Help!-ful soap pad brand
- Send help! message
- Rescue plea
- Rihanna hit that samples "Tainted Love"
- Aptly palindromic ABBA hit
- Brief alarm
- Palindromic song from a palindromic band
- Mamma Mia! song with the lyric "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
- ABBA classic
- Call for help repeated in the Police's "Message in a Bottle"
- Scouring brand
- Help us! letters
- Mamma Mia! duet for Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep
- Coded plea for help
- Emer. message
- Letters sent in emergencies
- Mayday call
- Maritime message
- Successor of CQD
- Letters for help
- Marine message
- Signal from Sparks
- Morse call for help
- Abba tune
- Help-wanted announcement?
- Nine-symbol message
- Disaster signal
- Emergency call
- USCG alert
- Mariner's signal
- Maritime "Help!"
- Signal meaning "help"
- Come and get us!
- Nautical "Help!"
- Ship's distress signal
- Urgent request
- Desperate plea
- Mariner's call for help
- Ship's distress call
- Rescue me
- Send help now
- Brand owned by Clorox
- Maritime alert
- Something to get a cutter's attention
- Help! signal
- Brand spelled with two (not three) dots
- Distress call at sea
- It sounds the same as Morse's VTB
- Symbolic "help"
- Theme of the puzzle
- Oceanic distress signal
- Plea from the sea
- What the USCG may respond to
- Nautical signal
- Only palindromic top-40 song title from a palindromic-name group
- Urgent call
- Big name in pads
- Help-needed announcement
- Nine-character signal
- Non-Scratch Scrubber brand
- Signal officially replaced in 1999
- Someone help me ABBA tune
- The Soapy Superhero
- Bit of telegraphy
- Brief call for help
- Nine-symbol signal
- Ship's emergency signal
- Appeal for aid
- Urgent signal
- What Clorox makes with steel
- Help wanted message
- Send help signal
- Red-square emergency emoji
- Target of false backronyms
- Maritime distress call
- Morse code "Help!" message
- Nautical alert
- Plea for rescue
- Ship's "Help!" signal
- Airborne attention-getter
- Household brand spelled with two (not three) dots
- Maritime "Help!" signal
- All Surface Sponge brand
- Brand that "Spells Clean!"
- Homophone of VTB, click-wise
- Brand of soap pads
- Distress call from a ship
- Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot
- ___ Titanic (1979 TV movie)
- Abba hit of 1975
- Call of desperation
- Clorox brand
- Radio distress call
- Sea signal
- The ___ Band ('80s funk group)
- I'll send an ___ to the world (repeated lyric in "Message in a Bottle")
- We need help!
- 36-Across, decoded
- 911 at sea
- Emergency call to the Coast Guard
- Emergency letters at sea
- It replaced CQD
- Message that may be written in large letters
- Modern version of CQD
- Nine-sound signal
- Palindromic hit song by the palindromic band Abba
- Signal from a sinking ship
- Signal since 1912
- Brand of scouring pad
- Palindromic signal
- Plea for help
- Telegrapher's distress signal
- CQD replacer
- Line in the sand?
- Signal for the USCG
- Send a rescue ship!
- 2007 Jonas Brothers song
- Song sung by Sam and Donna in "Mamma Mia!"
- Urgent transmission of sorts
- . . . _ _ _ . . .
- Signal made official in 1912.
- Three dots, three dashes, three dots.
- Code signal akin to mayday (m'aidez).
- 3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots.
- Call for help at sea.
- Radio code signal.
- Sparks' desperate call.
- Kin of C. Q. D.
- Radio message.
- Signal sent by Carlsen.
- Code signal.
- Relative of Mayday (m'aidez).
- Message from Sparks.
- Urgent message.
- Signal like "Mayday."
- Signal.
- Morse code signal.
- Radio for help.
- Trouble!
- Morse Code call.
- Call, at sea.
- Ship signal.
- Mayday! cousin
- Msg. from the Titanic
- U.S.C.G. stimulus
- Signal of a sort.
- Call for help: Colloq.
- Danger signal.
- Call of sorts.
- Radio call.
- Sea call.
- Mayday's cousin
- Mayday's relative
- Relative of Mayday
- Six dits and three dahs
- Desperate trio
- Titanic's call
- Call used by 41 Across
- Titanic call
- Desperate initials
- Signal from the Titanic: April, 1912
- Sparks's "Help!"
- Andrea Doria signal
- Appeal for help
- Frantic signal at sea
- Message like Mayday
- Help call
- Help request
- Sparks's frantic message
- Sparks's plea
- Sparks's desperate call
- Cry at sea
- Lusitania signal
- Morse resource
- A plea at sea
- Lusitania's last gasp
- Mayday, in a way
- Morse recourse
- Intl. signal adopted in 1912
- Mayday's kin
- Distressful call
- Lusitania's signal
- Titanic's cry
- Helmsman's panicked plea
- Cousin of "Mayday!"
- M'aidez!
- Mayday's rel.
- Sinking ship's call for help
- Andrea Doria msg.
- High-seas alert
- Sparks's frantic call
- Sparks's desperate message
- Sparks's last gasp
- Andrea Doria call
- Help-wanted indicator
- Abba hit song, 1975
- Kin of 911 call
- Offshore A.P.B.
- U.S.C.G. call
- Stranded sailor's call
- M'aidez, e.g.
- Skipper's plea
- Smoke signal message, maybe
- Help wanted advertisement?
- Hel-l-l-lp!
- ___ Titanic (1979 movie)
- ...and ___ yours!
- Help, quick!
- Call at sea, maybe
- Sturdy pad
- 1-Across song
- Brillo pad competitor
- Castaway's note
- It's sometimes written in the sand
- Terse radio message
- ___ pad
- Certain smoke signal
- Coast Guard concern
- Coded message
- Message from a desert isle, perhaps
- Sinker's call
- Message that's often repeated
- Those, in Toledo
- Marooned person's message
- Morse Mayday
- Call in a calamity
- Worrisome letters to send
- Cry when going down?
- Three short, three long, three short
- Hel-l-lp!
- 911 call, e.g.
- Help!... and a hint to 17-, 27-, 42- and 53-Across
- Sending out an ___ (much-repeated line in a Police hit)
- *Rihanna, 2006
- Help-wanted indication
- See 38-Across
- Song from "Mamma Mia!"
- Tapped-out message, often
- Sending out an ___ (repeated Police lyric)
- Call letters?
- Emergency broadcast
- Message on the beach of a remote island, maybe
- Song in "Mamma Mia!"
- I'll send an ___ to the world (Police lyric)
- Foundering call
- Letters from desperate people
- Long-distance call?
- Plea before going under
- Plea for aid
- Rihanna's first #1 Billboard single
- Stranded message?
- Urgent dispatch
- Rescue party prompter
- Signal that replaced "CQD"
- Message spelled out with coconuts, maybe
- Signal from a marooned sailor
- Emergency transmission
- It has three dashes in the middle
- Message that might be laid out in coconuts on a beach
- Message that might be spelled with rocks
- Rihanna's first #1 single
- Message from the marooned
- Morse code plea
- Request for an island getaway?
- Help us!, at sea
- Mamma Mia! song that begins "Where are those happy days?"
- Request for aid
- Critical message that's a hint to the six longest entries in this puzzle
- Brand of pads
- Classic distress call
- Help line?
- Impetus for a rescue mission
- Letters often meant to be read from afar
- Message in Morse code, maybe
- Message in smoke signals, maybe
- Title of hits by Abba and Rihanna
- Castaway's "Help!"
- Emergency call in Morse code
- Message often written in large letters
- [Send assistance!]
- A call for help
- Letters spelled out with rocks on a desert island, in cartoons
- Adoption of the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906
- Hit song title for Abba or Rihanna
- Letters requesting help
- Letters that shouldn't be written big for air rescue (a single V or X is best)
- Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short"
- Wedding ___ (reality TV series)
- Signal that had only existed for a few years when the RMS Titanic used it
- #1 hit for Rihanna
- [I'm really tired of being a castaway]
- 'Help, Hornblower!'
- Letters of desperation?
- '75 Abba tune
- Alert at sea
- Tar's 'Help!'
- 'Rescue us!'
- 'Help us!'
- ABBA song with the lyric "nothing else can save me"
- Distress code
- Nautical call for help
- Rihanna song with the lyric "someone help me"
- 'Help!,' asea
- Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day?
- 'We need assistance!'
- Salt's 'Help!'
- Take Your Time (Do It Right) ___ Band
- Police "I'll send an ___ to the world"
- The Police's "Message in a Bottle" distress call
- Motley Crue "Same Ol' Situation (___)"
- HELP! We're DROWNING!!!
- Beach read?
- Message in a Bottle communiqué
- Appeal of desert islands?
- Signal of desperation
- Atlantic plea
- Captain's cry
- Song by 10 Across
- Distressing sign?
- Rihanna's first Billboard chart-topper
- Streep/Brosnan duet, in "Mamma Mia"
- Title of hits for ABBA and Rihanna
- 2006 Rihanna hit that samples "Tainted Love"
- ABBA hit with the lyric "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
- Message often sent in Morse code
- Message that reads the same upside down in both English and Morse code
- Rihanna's first No. 1 single
- Help me!
- 2022 SZA album that débuted at No. 1 on the _Billboard_ 200
- Distress signal that reads the same when viewed upside down
- Message sent by the Titanic
- Message written in the sand, perhaps
- What "··· --- ···" means in Morse code
- _____ Pacific (1959)
- Plea asea
- Scouring pad
- _____ your mama! (insulting comeback)
- Abba hit
- Kin of 911
- Poseidon's call
- Distressing letters
- It may be tapped out at sea
- Mayday rel.
- Scary signal
- Gilligan's Island signal
- Send the Coast Guard!
- Hit song by ABBA
- Palindromic ABBA hit
- 911 on the ocean
- Plea to the Coast Guard
- Song on the "Mamma Mia!" soundtrack
- Urgent transmission
- Help plea from the sea
- Skipper's "mayday"
- Help! kin
- Ship emergency letters
- Castaway's signal
- This puzzle's theme
- Distress message
- Message spelled out in the sand, sometimes
- Nautical distress call
- Help variety
- Distress call on water
- Help transmission
- Plea written with rocks
- Scratchy pad
- Wet "Emergency!"
- ... --- ..., in Morse code
- Big name in scouring pads
- Emergency broadcast at sea
- What a flare can mean
- Sailor's emergency signal
- Lost-at-sea signal
- Signal after a shipwreck
- Get me out of here!
- ABBA song that pairs well with "Help!"?
- Big letters on an island beach, maybe
- Cleaning pad brand
- Letters read from a rescue plane
- Palindrome in English and Morse code
- Sailor's emergency letters
- Maritime call for help
- 1975 ABBA hit whose title is a plea for help
- ABBA song whose title is a cry for help
- Dispatch from the distressed
- Kind of pad with scour power
- Message from a shipwreck
- Signal for aid
- A sea plea
- Line from the Titanic
- Rival of Brillo
- War and ____
- ____ yer old man!
- Sign of distress
- Brief distress signal
- Mayday!, once
- Naut. alert, once
- Scourer's option
- Distressing letters found 9 times in this puzzle
- Skipper's distress call
- Dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit
- Titanic transmittal
- Watery 911
- Worrisome letters
- I'm foundering!
- Call in a watery calamity
- What the Titanic sent out
- Help-seeking letters
- Help! to a sailor
- What the Titanic sent
- Emergency! at sea
- Desperate signal
- Foundering plea
- Intl. distress letters
- Sinking ship's signal of old
- Tune from "Mamma Mia!"
- Urgent appeal to the Coast Guard
- We're sinking!
- Call from a sinking ship
- Call to a rescuer
- Castaway's distress call
- Foundering ship's signal
- Opening track on ABBA's "Greatest Hits"
- Urgent call to the USCG
- I need help!
- Mayday! precursor
- Distress letters of old
- Dots-and-dashes distress call
- Dots-and-dashes plea for help
- Morse code plea, once
- Plea to the USCG
- Tapped-out plea
- Titanic's transmission
- Help me! letters
- Letters calling for help
- Letters of distress at sea
- Seafaring distress letters
- Signal that's a palindrome in English and Morse code
- Help! We're having boat problems!
- Mayday! There's a leak in our boat!
- Please help!
- We need help! letters
- Boater's distress signal
- Boater's urgent signal
- Help us pls!
- Help! We've sprung a leak!
- Our boat is sinking!
- Please send a boat to rescue my boat
- There's a hole in my boat!
- Title of a Rihanna or ABBA hit
- A little help here!
- I'm trapped on this island!
- My boat's sprung a leak!
- Welp . . . things are not going well on my boat!
- 6-Down hit with the lyric "Nothing else can save me"
- Castaway's call for help
- Distress letters at sea
- Hit song by ABBA or Rihanna
- Letters often spelled in Morse code
- Palindromic plea meaning "Help us!"
- Request for savings?
- Oh no! Pirates!
- Alarming radio letters
- Palindromic distress call
- Desperate plea at sea
- Palindromic cry for help
- Sailor's distress call
- Request for help
- Flashed message
- Desperate call
- Sign of desperation
- Urgent appeal
- Foundering signal
- Mayday! (and the initials of this puzzle's longest answers)
- Brand with a Grill Mates variety
- Sinker's signal
- Sinking signal
- Appeal at sea
- Desperate Morse message
- Frantic signal
- Mayday call found in the starred answers
- Brand of 42-Down
- Letters signaling trouble
- Help a seafarer out!
- Desperate dots and dashes
- Frantic transmission
- Message from a sinking ship
- Plea from the imperiled
- Morse plea
- Rihanna hit of 2006
- Call for immediate help
- Captain's call for help
- Desperate transmission
- Request for rescue
- Rihanna song that samples "Tainted Love"
- What a flare might indicate
- Bring help! signal
- Distressed dispatch
- Naval appeal
- Panicked transmission
- Plea with nine taps
- Signal while sinking
- Call for rescue
- Distress signal designed for Morse code
- Signal when sinking
