1 |
... --- ... |
2 |
···---··· |
3 |
...---... |
4 |
... ---
, decoded |
5 |
... --- ..., decoded |
6 |
... --- ..., in Morse code |
7 |
"--- yer old man!" |
8 |
"--- your mama!" (insulting comeback) |
9 |
#1 hit for Rihanna with the lyrics "Please someone help me" |
10 |
#1 hit for Rihanna |
11 |
1975 #1 hit song with the lyrics "the love you gave me, nothing else can save me" |
12 |
1975 ABBA hit |
13 |
2006 #1 hit for Rihanna |
14 |
2006 hit for Rihanna |
15 |
2006 Rihanna hit with the lyric "please someone help me" |
16 |
2006 Rihanna hit |
17 |
2006 Rihanna single that samples "Tainted Love" |
18 |
2006 Rihanna song that samples "Tainted Love" |
19 |
2006 Rihanna song with the lyric "please someone help me" |
20 |
2007 Jonas Brothers song |
21 |
2x platinum Rihanna hit dedicated, I guess, to whoever eventually rescued her from that sinking ship (the sinking ship of her emotions) |
22 |
911 at sea |
23 |
911 call, e.g. |
24 |
911 on the ocean |
25 |
... _ _ _ ... |
26 |
..._ _ _... |
27 |
"__ Titanic": 1979 film |
28 |
___ pad |
29 |
"___ Titanic" (1979 movie) |
30 |
"___ yer old man!" |
31 |
''___ yer old man!'' |
32 |
"___ your old man!" |
33 |
"...and ___ yours!" |
34 |
____ yer old man! |
35 |
Andrea Doria call |
36 |
Andrea Doria msg. |
37 |
Andrea Doria signal |
38 |
A call for help |
39 |
A plea at sea |
40 |
Appeal at sea |
41 |
Appeal for aid |
42 |
Appeal for help |
43 |
ABBA hit |
44 |
Abba hit song, 1975 |
45 |
ABBA hit that reads the same forward and backward |
46 |
ABBA number |
47 |
ABBA song performed in "Mamma Mia!" |
48 |
ABBA song |
49 |
Act II duet in "Mamma Mia!" |
50 |
Big name in pads |
51 |
Big name in scouring pads |
52 |
Attention-getting message in the sand |
53 |
Bit of telegraphy |
54 |
Alert asea |
55 |
Alert at sea |
56 |
Alert for the Coast Guard |
57 |
Boater's distress call |
58 |
Dashed-off message? |
59 |
Dashed-off plea? |
60 |
Familiar telegraphy sequence |
61 |
Int. distress signal |
62 |
Frantic signal at sea |
63 |
Frantic signal |
64 |
Frantic transmission |
65 |
International distress sig. |
66 |
International signal of distress |
67 |
Common bit of Morse code |
68 |
Hit song by ABBA |
69 |
Intl. distress letters |
70 |
Intl. signal adopted in 1912 |
71 |
Common distress call |
72 |
Brand found in the kitchen |
73 |
Brand invented by an aluminum pot salesman |
74 |
Brand of scouring pad |
75 |
Brand of scouring pads |
76 |
Brand owned by Clorox |
77 |
Brand spelled with two (not three) dots |
78 |
Brand with a Grill Mates variety |
79 |
Competitor of Brillo |
80 |
Certain smoke signal |
81 |
Brief call for help |
82 |
Brillo alternative |
83 |
Brillo competitor |
84 |
Brillo counterpart |
85 |
Brillo pad competitor |
86 |
Brillo rival |
87 |
Brillo shelfmate |
88 |
Brillo's rival in scouring pads |
89 |
It has three dashes in the middle |
90 |
Desperate call, for short |
91 |
Desperate call |
92 |
Desperate dots and dashes |
93 |
Desperate initials |
94 |
Desperate letters |
95 |
Desperate Morse message |
96 |
Desperate plea |
97 |
Desperate signal |
98 |
Desperate trio |
99 |
"H-E-L-P!" |
100 |
It may be tapped out at sea |
101 |
It may be tapped out |
102 |
It may go up in smoke |
103 |
It might be sent from a bridge |
104 |
"Emergency!" at sea |
105 |
Emergency broadcast at sea |
106 |
Emergency broadcast |
107 |
Emergency call to the Coast Guard |
108 |
Emergency call |
109 |
Emergency letters at sea |
110 |
Emergency letters |
111 |
Emergency message |
112 |
Emergency signal at sea |
113 |
Emergency signal |
114 |
Emergency transmission |
115 |
"Emergency!" |
116 |
It replaced CQD |
117 |
It sounds the same as Morse's VTB |
118 |
"I need help!" |
119 |
Cousin of "Mayday!" |
120 |
Distress-at-sea message |
121 |
Distress call at sea |
122 |
Distress call, at sea |
123 |
Distress-call letters |
124 |
Distress call letters |
125 |
Distress call on water |
126 |
Distress call sent in Morse code |
127 |
Distress call |
128 |
Distress code |
129 |
Distress inits. |
130 |
Distress letters of old |
131 |
Distress letters |
132 |
Distress message |
133 |
Distress sig. |
134 |
Distress signal at sea |
135 |
Distress signal from a ship captain |
136 |
Distress signal from a ship |
137 |
Distress signal letters |
138 |
Distress-signal letters |
139 |
Distress signal that's also palindromic in Morse code |
140 |
Distress signal |
141 |
Distressful call |
142 |
Distressing letters found 9 times in this puzzle |
143 |
Distressing letters |
144 |
It's sometimes written in the sand |
145 |
Dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit |
146 |
Flare, maybe |
147 |
Flare, perhaps |
148 |
Flashed message |
149 |
CQD replacer |
150 |
CQD successor |
151 |
Call at sea, maybe |
152 |
Call at sea |
153 |
Call for aid |
154 |
Call for assistance |
155 |
Call for help. |
156 |
Call for help at sea |
157 |
Call for help from a ship |
158 |
Call for help |
159 |
Call from a sinking ship |
160 |
Call from the distressed |
161 |
Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day? |
162 |
Call in a calamity |
163 |
Call in a watery calamity |
164 |
Cramped dwellings, for short |
165 |
Call letters? |
166 |
Call to a rescuer |
167 |
Call to the Coast Guard |
168 |
Call to the USCG |
169 |
Call to the U.S.C.G. |
170 |
"Gilligan's Island" signal |
171 |
"I'll send an ___ to the world" (Police lyric) |
172 |
"I'll send an ___ to the world" (repeated lyric in "Message in a Bottle") |
173 |
"I'm drowning" |
174 |
"I'm foundering!" |
175 |
'He-e-elp!' |
176 |
"I'm in trouble here!" |
177 |
[I'm in trouble here!] |
178 |
[I'm really tired of being a castaway] |
179 |
Cleaning product with two periods in its name |
180 |
Imperiled one's signal |
181 |
Critical message that's a hint to the six longest entries in this puzzle |
182 |
Clorox brand |
183 |
Clorox cleaning product |
184 |
Cry at sea |
185 |
Cry for help |
186 |
Cry from someone with that sinking feeling? |
187 |
Cry on a sinking ship |
188 |
"Don't let us sink!" |
189 |
Cry when going down? |
190 |
Captain's "I need help ASAP!" |
191 |
"Hel-l-l-lp!" |
192 |
"Hel-l-lp!" |
193 |
Coast Guard alert |
194 |
Coast Guard concern |
195 |
Coast Guard pickup |
196 |
Helmsman's panicked plea |
197 |
Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot |
198 |
Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot |
199 |
"Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot" |
200 |
Help! |
201 |
''Help!'' |
202 |
'Help!' |
203 |
"Help a seafarer out!" |
204 |
"Help!" (and this puzzle's title) |
205 |
"Help!," as signaled by a sailor |
206 |
'Help!,' asea |
207 |
"Help!," at sea |
208 |
"Help!" at sea |
209 |
Help call |
210 |
Dots-and-dashes distress call |
211 |
Help found inside eight puzzle answers |
212 |
'Help!' from a helmsman |
213 |
"Help!"-ful soap pad brand |
214 |
"Help!" kin |
215 |
"Help!" letters |
216 |
Help line? |
217 |
Help-needed announcement |
218 |
"Help!" on the briny |
219 |
"Help!" on the high seas |
220 |
"Help! Our ship is in trouble!" |
221 |
Help plea from the sea |
222 |
"Help, quick!" |
223 |
Help request |
224 |
Help-seeking letters |
225 |
"Help!" signal |
226 |
"HELP! This Rihanna classic is too dope!" |
227 |
"Help!" to a sailor |
228 |
Help transmission |
229 |
'Help us!' |
230 |
"Help us!": Abbr. |
231 |
"Help us!," at sea |
232 |
"Help us, we're sinking!" |
233 |
"Help us!" |
234 |
"Help" variety |
235 |
"Help wanted" |
236 |
Help wanted advertisement? |
237 |
Help wanted announcement? |
238 |
Help-wanted announcement? |
239 |
Help-wanted announcement |
240 |
Help-wanted indication |
241 |
Help-wanted indicator |
242 |
Help wanted letters |
243 |
"Help wanted" letters |
244 |
Help-wanted letters |
245 |
"Help wanted" message |
246 |
Help wanted notice? |
247 |
Help-wanted notice? |
248 |
Help-wanted request |
249 |
Help wanted sign? |
250 |
"Help wanted" sign |
251 |
"Help wanted" sign? |
252 |
Help wanted sign |
253 |
Help-wanted sign? |
254 |
Help wanted signal |
255 |
"Help wanted"? |
256 |
"Help, we're sinking!" |
257 |
"Help! We're sinking!" |
258 |
"Help!" |
259 |
Coded plea |
260 |
Castaway's call |
261 |
Castaway's distress call |
262 |
Castaway's favorite three letters |
263 |
Castaway's letters |
264 |
Castaway's message |
265 |
Castaway's note |
266 |
Castaway's signal |
267 |
High-seas alert |
268 |
Foundering call |
269 |
Foundering plea |
270 |
Foundering ship's signal |
271 |
Foundering signal |
272 |
"Come and get us!" |
273 |
"Mamma Mia" number |
274 |
"Mamma Mia!" number |
275 |
"Mamma Mia!" song that begins "Where are those happy days?" |
276 |
"Mamma Mia!" song |
277 |
Rihanna #1 song that sampled "Tainted Love" |
278 |
Rihanna hit of 2006 or Abba hit of 1975 |
279 |
Rihanna hit of 2006 |
280 |
Rihanna hit subtitled "Rescue Me" |
281 |
Rihanna hit that samples "Tainted Love" |
282 |
Rihanna's first #1 Billboard single |
283 |
Rihanna's first #1 hit |
284 |
Rihanna's first #1 single (out of 14 to date) |
285 |
Rihanna's first #1 single |
286 |
"Man overboard!" signal |
287 |
Motley Crue "Same Ol' Situation (___)" |
288 |
Stranded message? |
289 |
Stranded sailor's call |
290 |
Stranded traveler's signal, perhaps |
291 |
"The boat is sinking!" |
292 |
Kin of 911 call |
293 |
Kin of 911 |
294 |
Kin of a 911 call |
295 |
Kin of C. Q. D. |
296 |
Kin of C.Q.D. |
297 |
Marine counterpart of "Mayday!" |
298 |
Marine "mayday" |
299 |
Marine "Mayday!" |
300 |
Marine mayday |
301 |
Mariner's call for help |
302 |
Mariner's distress call |
303 |
Mariner's distress signal |
304 |
Mariner's "Help!" |
305 |
Mariner's "Mayday!" |
306 |
Mariner's mayday |
307 |
Mariner's ''Mayday!'' |
308 |
Mariners' sig. |
309 |
Mariner's signal |
310 |
Maritime alert |
311 |
Maritime call for help |
312 |
Maritime distress call |
313 |
Maritime distress signal |
314 |
Maritime 'Mayday!' |
315 |
Maritime plea |
316 |
Maritime signal that means "Help!" |
317 |
Kind of pad |
318 |
Marooned person's message |
319 |
Msg. from the Titanic |
320 |
Pad around the kitchen |
321 |
Pad at a sink |
322 |
Pad in the kitchen |
323 |
Pad name |
324 |
"Somebody help us!" |
325 |
"Someone help me" ABBA tune |
326 |
Sturdy pad |
327 |
"• • •– – –• • •," translated from Morse code |
328 |
Ocean liner's distress signal |
329 |
Oceanic distress signal |
330 |
Ocean's "911" |
331 |
Something to get a cutter's attention |
332 |
Ship emergency letters |
333 |
Palindrome named 1975 hit from a palindrome named band |
334 |
Palindromic ABBA hit |
335 |
Palindromic call for help |
336 |
Palindromic hit song by the palindromic band Abba |
337 |
Palindromic plea |
338 |
Palindromic signal |
339 |
Plea asea |
340 |
Plea at sea, briefly |
341 |
Plea at sea |
342 |
Plea before going under |
343 |
Plea for aid |
344 |
Plea for help |
345 |
Plea from a schooner |
346 |
Plea from the imperiled |
347 |
Plea from the sea |
348 |
Plea to the Coast Guard |
349 |
Plea written with rocks |
350 |
Ship's call for help |
351 |
Ship's distress call |
352 |
Ship's distress signal |
353 |
Ship's emergency signal |
354 |
Ship's help signal |
355 |
Ship's plea |
356 |
"Please rescue me!" |
357 |
"Please rescue us from this sinking ship!" |
358 |
Shipwreck signal |
359 |
Song from "Mamma Mia!" |
360 |
Song in "Mamma Mia!" |
361 |
Song on the album "ABBA" |
362 |
Song on the "Mamma Mia!" soundtrack |
363 |
Song sung by Sam and Donna in "Mamma Mia!" |
364 |
May Day! |
365 |
Mayday |
366 |
Mayday! |
367 |
'Mayday!' |
368 |
"Mayday!" |
369 |
"Mayday" |
370 |
Mayday! (and the initials of this puzzle's longest answers) |
371 |
Mayday call found in the starred answers |
372 |
Mayday call |
373 |
Mayday cousin |
374 |
"Mayday!" cousin |
375 |
Mayday, in a way |
376 |
Mayday letters |
377 |
"Mayday! Mayday!" |
378 |
Mayday! Mayday! |
379 |
Mayday message |
380 |
"Mayday!," on a ship |
381 |
"Mayday!" precursor |
382 |
Mayday rel. |
383 |
Mayday relative |
384 |
"Mayday!" relative |
385 |
''Mayday!'' relative |
386 |
"Mayday" relative |
387 |
Mayday signal |
388 |
"Mayday!" signal |
389 |
''Mayday!'' |
390 |
Mayday's cousin |
391 |
Mayday's kin |
392 |
Mayday's rel. |
393 |
Mayday's relative |
394 |
Line in the sand? |
395 |
The Police's "Message in a Bottle" distress call |
396 |
Offshore A.P.B. |
397 |
Offshore distress signal |
398 |
Shortest-named ABBA single |
399 |
"The Soapy Superhero" |
400 |
Radio message |
401 |
Radio message. |
402 |
Police "I'll send an ___ to the world" |
403 |
Popular pad |
404 |
Nautical counterpart of "Mayday!" |
405 |
Nautical distress call |
406 |
Nautical "Help!" |
407 |
Nautical ''Help!'' |
408 |
Nautical signal |
409 |
Naval distress signal |
410 |
Message frantically tapped out |
411 |
Message from a bridge |
412 |
Message from a desert isle, perhaps |
413 |
Message from a sinking ship |
414 |
Message from a stranded person |
415 |
Message from the marooned |
416 |
Message from the Titanic |
417 |
Message in a bottle? |
418 |
Message in a bottle, maybe |
419 |
Message in a bottle |
420 |
Message in a storm |
421 |
Message in smoke signals, maybe |
422 |
Message like Mayday |
423 |
Message on the beach of a remote island, maybe |
424 |
Message spelled out in the sand, sometimes |
425 |
Message spelled out with coconuts, maybe |
426 |
Message that may be written in large letters |
427 |
Message that might be laid out in coconuts on a beach |
428 |
Message that might be spelled with rocks |
429 |
Message that's often repeated |
430 |
Long-distance call? |
431 |
Poseidon's call |
432 |
Longtime distress signal |
433 |
Pot-scrubbing brand |
434 |
One might be picked up in a storm |
435 |
One might be received on a bridge |
436 |
Lost-at-sea signal |
437 |
Red-square emergency emoji |
438 |
Relative of Mayday |
439 |
Lusitania signal |
440 |
Lusitania's last gasp |
441 |
Lusitania's signal |
442 |
Nine-character signal |
443 |
Nine-sound signal |
444 |
Nine-symbol message |
445 |
Nine-symbol signal |
446 |
Nine-tap signal |
447 |
Modern version of CQD |
448 |
Letters addressed to airplanes? |
449 |
Letters addressed to an airplane, perhaps |
450 |
Letters addressed to anyone at all |
451 |
Letters calling for help |
452 |
Letters for help |
453 |
Letters formed by someone stranded on a deserted island |
454 |
Letters from desperate people |
455 |
Letters from someone who needs to be rescued |
456 |
Letters from the high seas |
457 |
Letters in the sand |
458 |
Letters in the sand, perhaps |
459 |
Letters in the sand? |
460 |
Letters meaning "Help!" |
461 |
Letters meaning "It's an emergency!" |
462 |
Letters of desperation |
463 |
Letters of distress at sea |
464 |
Letters of distress |
465 |
Request for aid |
466 |
Request for an island getaway? |
467 |
Request to be rescued |
468 |
Letters seeking aid |
469 |
Letters sent by a boat in distress |
470 |
Only hit song for which title and artist are both palindromes |
471 |
Letters signaling trouble |
472 |
Letters that mean "Emergency!" |
473 |
Letters that mean "Help!" |
474 |
Letters that signal a call for help |
475 |
Letters to the Coast Guard |
476 |
Letters used as a distress call |
477 |
Only palindromic top-40 song title from a palindromic-name group |
478 |
"Rescue me!" |
479 |
"Rescue me" |
480 |
Rescue me! |
481 |
M'aidez! |
482 |
Rescue party prompter |
483 |
Rescue plea |
484 |
Rescue request |
485 |
"Rescue this sinking ship!" |
486 |
'Rescue us!' |
487 |
Non-Scratch Scrubber brand |
488 |
Main message? |
489 |
Main signal |
490 |
Opening track on ABBA's "Greatest Hits" |
491 |
Response to a sinking feeling? |
492 |
Pick-up order? |
493 |
Morse code message meaning "help!" |
494 |
Morse code message |
495 |
Morse code plea, once |
496 |
Morse code plea |
497 |
Morse distress signal |
498 |
Morse Mayday |
499 |
Morse plea |
500 |
Morse recourse? |
501 |
Morse recourse |
502 |
Morse resource |
503 |
Theme of the puzzle |
504 |
Tune from "Mamma Mia!" |
505 |
Sig. for the shipwrecked |
506 |
Sign of desperation |
507 |
Sailor's call for help |
508 |
Sailors' distress signal |
509 |
Sailor's distress signal |
510 |
Sailor's emergency signal |
511 |
Sailor's "Help!" |
512 |
Sailor's "Mayday!" |
513 |
Sailor's signal that means "Help!" |
514 |
Sign of trouble |
515 |
Signal for aid |
516 |
Signal for help |
517 |
Signal for immediate assistance |
518 |
Signal for the USCG |
519 |
Signal from a marooned sailor |
520 |
Signal from a ship in distress |
521 |
Signal from a sinking ship |
522 |
Signal from someone in trouble |
523 |
Signal from the Titanic: April, 1912 |
524 |
Signal meaning ''help'' |
525 |
Signal of distress |
526 |
Signal officially replaced in 1999 |
527 |
Signal often made in Morse code |
528 |
Signal sent by Carlsen. |
529 |
Signal since 1912 |
530 |
Signal that had only existed for a few years when the RMS Titanic used it |
531 |
Signal that means "Mayday!" |
532 |
Signal that means "Please help us!" |
533 |
Signal that replaced "CQD" |
534 |
Signal that's a palindrome in English and Morse code |
535 |
Signal when sinking |
536 |
Watery 911 |
537 |
Sparks's desperate call |
538 |
Sparks's desperate message |
539 |
Sparks's frantic call |
540 |
Sparks's frantic message |
541 |
Sparks's "Help!" |
542 |
Sparks's last gasp |
543 |
Sparks's plea |
544 |
Salt's 'Help!' |
545 |
'We need assistance!' |
546 |
"We need help!" |
547 |
"Wedding ___" (reality TV series) |
548 |
Sinker's call |
549 |
Sinker's signal |
550 |
Sinking call |
551 |
Sinking feeling outburst? |
552 |
Sinking letters |
553 |
Sinking ship signal |
554 |
Sinking ship's call for help |
555 |
Sinking ship's signal of old |
556 |
Sinking ship's signal |
557 |
Sinking signal |
558 |
Symbolic "help" |
559 |
"We're drowning here" |
560 |
"We're going down!" |
561 |
"We're going to drown!" |
562 |
"We're in trouble," briefly |
563 |
"We're sinking!" |
564 |
"We're taking on water!" |
565 |
Six dits and three dahs |
566 |
Scary signal |
567 |
Worrisome letters to send |
568 |
Worrisome letters |
569 |
Worshiping figure |
570 |
Wet "Emergency!" |
571 |
This puzzle's theme |
572 |
What a flare can mean |
573 |
Skipper's distress call |
574 |
Skipper's "mayday" |
575 |
Skipper's plea |
576 |
"Take Your Time (Do It Right)" ___ Band |
577 |
Under-the-sink brand |
578 |
Three-letter distress signal sent by ships |
579 |
Three-letter product with two periods |
580 |
Three short, three long, three short |
581 |
Scotch-Brite rival |
582 |
What Clorox makes with steel |
583 |
Scouring pad brand |
584 |
Scratchy pad |
585 |
Yachter's 'Help!' |
586 |
Yacht's distress signal |
587 |
Scrubber brand |
588 |
Scrubbing brand |
589 |
Tapped-out letters |
590 |
Tapped-out message, often |
591 |
Tapped-out message |
592 |
Tapped-out plea |
593 |
Universal signal since 1908 |
594 |
Target of false backronyms |
595 |
Sea call |
596 |
Sea captain's "Help!" |
597 |
Tar's 'Help!' |
598 |
Sea plea |
599 |
Sea signal |
600 |
Seafaring distress letters |
601 |
Seaman's "911" |
602 |
Seaman's call for assistance |
603 |
Seaman's "Help!" |
604 |
What ". . . - - - . . ." signals in Morse code |
605 |
What "• • •– – –• • •" signals in Morse code |
606 |
What the Coast Guard may pick up |
607 |
What the Titanic sent out |
608 |
What the Titanic sent |
609 |
What the USCG may respond to |
610 |
Titanic call |
611 |
Titanic message |
612 |
Titanic signal |
613 |
Titanic transmission |
614 |
Titanic transmittal |
615 |
Titanic's call |
616 |
Titanic's cry |
617 |
Titanic's transmission |
618 |
Smidgen |
619 |
Telegrapher's distress signal |
620 |
Smoke signal message, maybe |
621 |
Title of different hit songs by ABBA and Rihanna |
622 |
Urgent appeal to the Coast Guard |
623 |
Urgent appeal |
624 |
Urgent call |
625 |
Urgent call at sea |
626 |
Urgent call for help |
627 |
Urgent call to the USCG |
628 |
Urgent dispatch |
629 |
Urgent distress signal |
630 |
Urgent letters? |
631 |
Urgent letters |
632 |
Urgent message |
633 |
Urgent nautical message |
634 |
Urgent offshore signal |
635 |
Urgent request to the USCG |
636 |
Urgent request |
637 |
Urgent signal |
638 |
Urgent transmission of sorts |
639 |
Urgent transmission |
640 |
Title shared by hit songs from Rihanna (2006) and ABBA (1975) |
641 |
USCG alert |
642 |
U.S.C.G. call |
643 |
USCG reception |
644 |
U.S.C.G. stimulus |
645 |
"Send a rescue ship!" |
646 |
'Send help!' |
647 |
"Send help!" message |
648 |
"Send help now!" |
649 |
"Send help now" |
650 |
"Send help" signal |
651 |
"Send help!" |
652 |
"Send the Coast Guard!" |
653 |
Terse radio message |
654 |
Soap pad brand |
655 |
"Sending out an ___" (much-repeated line in a Police hit) |
656 |
"Sending out an ___" (repeated Police lyric) |