Referring Clues

• Smoke signal message, maybe
• "Help!"
• Help wanted advertisement?
• Urgent call
• "Send help!"
• "___ Titanic" (1979 movie)
• Kind of pad
• ..._ _ _...
• Brillo rival
• "Hel-l-l-lp!"
• "...and ___ yours!"
• Message in a bottle?
• ... _ _ _ ...
• Distress call
• Help wanted notice?
• Call for help
• "H-E-L-P!"
• Alert asea
• "Help, quick!"
• Call at sea, maybe
• Sturdy pad
• Urgent message
• Sea plea
• Brillo pad competitor
• Castaway's note
• 1-Across song
• Terse radio message
• ···---···
• ___ pad
• Emergency message
• It's sometimes written in the sand
• "___ yer old man!"
• Letters of distress
• Plea at sea
• Certain smoke signal
• Coast Guard concern
• It may be tapped out
• Distress signal
• Sinker's call
• Message from a desert isle, perhaps
• Message that's often repeated
• Shipwreck signal
• Message in a bottle, maybe
• ... --- ...
• "Help wanted"
• Morse Mayday
• Ship's call for help
• Worrisome letters to send
• "Help wanted" letters
• Castaway's call
• Emergency letters
• Brillo alternative
• Call in a calamity
• Three short, three long, three short
• Cry when going down?
• Titanic message
• "Rescue me!"
• Pad name
• "Hel-l-lp!"
• 911 call, e.g.
• ...- - -..., to Morse
• Call to the Coast Guard
• Help wanted ad?
• "Help!", on the high seas
• "___ yer ol' man!"
• Coast Guard alert
• Message from the Titanic
• USCG signal
• "Mayday!" signal
• 1975 Abba hit
• Nine-part plea
• Palindromic plea
• Mayday letters featured in this puzzle's theme answers
• Request to the USCG
• Nine-symbol plea
• One of five "M'aidez!" ("Help me!") pleas in this puzzle
• Urgent request to the USCG
• "Mayday!" relative
• Message to the Coast Guard
• Call for aid
• "Mamma Mia!" song
• Cry for help
• "Mayday!"
• Brillo shelfmate
• "Mayday! Mayday!"
• Rescue request
• Pad in the kitchen
• Clorox brand
• "Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot"
• It replaced CQD
• Nine-sound signal
• Palindromic hit song by the palindromic band Abba
• Brand found in the kitchen
• Mariner's "Help!"
• Tapped-out message
• Distress letters
• Seaman's "911"
• Song from "Mamma Mia!"
• Tapped-out message, often
• 911 at sea
• Call from the distressed
• Emergency call to the Coast Guard
• Message that may be written in large letters
• Signal since 1912
• "I'll send an ___ to the world" (repeated lyric in "Message in a Bottle")
• Modern version of CQD
• 36-Across, decoded
• Signal from a sinking ship
• "We need help!"
• Emergency letters at sea
• Telegrapher's distress signal
• Plea for help
• Brand of scouring pad
• Palindromic signal
• Line in the sand?
• Help wanted sign?
• Signal for the USCG
• Distress call letters
• CQD replacer
• "Send a rescue ship!"
• 2007 Jonas Brothers song
• Urgent transmission of sorts
• Song sung by Sam and Donna in "Mamma Mia!"
• Sinking ship's signal
• "Help!" at sea
• Coast Guard pickup
• It might be sent from a bridge
• Help-wanted request
• 2006 Rihanna hit
• Seaman's "Help!"
• Scrubbing brand
• Flare, perhaps
• Mariner's distress signal
• Familiar telegraphy sequence
• Mariner's distress call
• Help-wanted notice?
• Under-the-sink brand
• One might be received on a bridge
• Brillo competitor
• Brand invented by an aluminum pot salesman
• Help-wanted letters
• Stranded traveler's signal, perhaps
• Clorox cleaning product
• Urgent call at sea
• Main message?
• Ocean's "911"
• Help-wanted sign?
• Letters from the high seas
• "___ Titanic": 1979 film
• It may go up in smoke
• Letters in the sand, perhaps
• Request to be rescued
• "Help!" (and this puzzle's title)
• Call for assistance
• Only hit song for which title and artist are both palindromes
• Signal for help
• USCG alert
• Nautical "Help!"
• Signal meaning "help"
• Mariner's signal
• Urgent request
• Ship's distress signal
• "Come and get us!"
• Help-wanted announcement
• "Help!"
• Morse code message
• Dashed-off message?
• Message from a bridge
• "Send the Coast Guard!"
• Hit song by ABBA
• "Mayday!" cousin
• Marine "mayday"
• Palindromic ABBA hit
• Ship's plea
• "Mayday"
• "___ yer old man!"
• "Gilligan's Island" signal
• Distressing letters
• Maritime distress call
• It may be tapped out at sea
• Plea asea
• Mariner's "Mayday!"
• Scary signal
• Mayday relative
• Mayday rel.
• "Mayday!" cousin
• ABBA hit
• Titanic transmission
• "Help!" on the high seas
• "I'm foundering!"
• Dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit
• Watery 911
• Worrisome letters
• Titanic transmittal
• Plea from the sea
• ...---...
• Mayday letters
• Mayday! Mayday!
• ... --- ...
• Letters in the sand?
• Help wanted letters
• Distressing letters found 9 times in this puzzle
• Skipper's distress call
• Skipper's plea
• Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot
• Mayday cousin
• CQD successor
• Kin of 911
• Mayday!
• Help-wanted indicator
• Sailor's "Mayday!"
• Message in a storm
• Maritime distress signal
• Call in a watery calamity
• Ship's distress call
• Nine-symbol message
• Plea to the Coast Guard
• Flare, maybe
• "Sending out an ___" (much-repeated line in a Police hit)
• Desperate plea
• *Rihanna, 2006
• Distress-signal letters
• Help-wanted indication
• "Gilligan's Island" signal
• Kin of a 911 call
• See 38-Across
• "Help!"... and a hint to 17-, 27-, 42- and 53-Across
• "Mamma Mia" number
• Titanic's call
• 911 on the ocean
• Urgent transmission
• One might be picked up in a storm
• Sailor's "Help!"
• Marine counterpart of "Mayday!"
• Seaman's call for assistance
• Mariner's call for help
• Song on the "Mamma Mia!" soundtrack
• Message in a bottle
• Skipper's "mayday"
• Call letters?
• Titanic signal
• Desperate call, for short
• "Sending out an ___" (repeated Police lyric)
• Popular pad
• Message on the beach of a remote island, maybe
• Captain's "I need help ASAP!"
• Song in "Mamma Mia!"
• ... --- …
• Mariner's "Mayday!"
• "___ Titanic": 1979 film
• Desperate characters?
• Morse message
• "--- yer old man!"
• "Mamma Mia!" number
• ABBA number
• Letters seeking aid
• Nautical "Help!"
• Signal meaning "help"
• "Come and get us!"
• Maritime message
• Rihanna hit that samples "Tainted Love"
• "Help us!"
• Big name in scouring pads
• Signal from someone in trouble
• Distress sig.
• Pad around the kitchen
• Help plea from the sea
• What the Titanic sent out
• Desperate call
• Poseidon's call
• Coded plea
• Nautical counterpart of "Mayday!"
• Foundering plea
• Sign of desperation
• Emergency broadcast
• Urgent offshore signal
• "Send help now"
• Signal for immediate assistance
• Foundering call
• Universal signal since 1908
• 'Mayday!'
• 'Help!'
• Mayday call
• Sinking signal
• Distress code
• Distress-call letters
• 'Help!
• ABBA song
• '___ your old man!'
• 'May-day!'
• Call hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers that's apt for May Day?
• 'Help!,' asea
• 'Rescue us!'
• 'Help us!'
• Tar's 'Help!'
• 'Send help!'
• Mariner's 'Mayday!'
• Marine Mayday
• Alert at sea
• Sea call
• Pot-scrubbing brand
• Ship's help signal
• Plea for aid
• [I'm really tired of being a castaway]
• Alert for the Coast Guard
• Sig. for the shipwrecked
• Letters addressed to airplanes?
• Distress call, at sea
• Soap pad for emergencies?
• Plea before going under
• Castaway's letters
• "I'll send an ___ to the world" (Police lyric)
• 33-Across brand
• Castaway's message
• Letters from desperate people
• Something to get a cutter's attention
• "Rescue me"
• Long-distance call?
• Response to a sinking feeling?
• Help found inside eight puzzle answers
• Urgent letters
• #1 hit for Rihanna
• Desperate letters
• Maritime alert
• Brand owned by Clorox
• Sinking letters
• What the Titanic sent
• Pad at a sink
• Urgent dispatch
• "Help!" signal
• Urgent call for help
• Brand spelled with two (not three) dots
• Tapped-out letters
• Emergency signal
• It sounds the same as Morse's VTB
• Mariners' sig.
• Stranded message?
• Help-wanted announcement?
• Rihanna's first #1 Billboard single
• Signal when sinking
• "Help!" to a sailor
• Common bit of Morse code
• 'We need assistance!'
• Symbolic "help"
• Sailor's distress signal
• Sign of trouble
• Distress call at sea
• Letters to the Coast Guard
• "Help!" kin
• "Emergency!"
• Urgent appeal
• Emergency call
• Signal that replaced "CQD"
• Sinking ship signal
• Ship emergency letters
• Letters for help
• Scouring pad brand
• Salt's 'Help!'
• Help-seeking letters
• Desperate signal
• Sea captain's "Help!"
• Rescue party prompter
• Signal of distress
• Marine "Mayday!"
• "Help wanted"?
• Main signal
• Shortest-named ABBA single
• Intl. distress letters
• Distress initials
• Plea at sea, briefly
• Pick-up order?
• Nine-tap signal
• Mayday! (and the initials of this puzzle's longest answers)
• Distress inits.
• "Emergency!" at sea
• Message spelled out with coconuts, maybe
• "Help! We're sinking!"
• Titanic call
• Signal from a marooned sailor
• Smidgen
• Castaway's signal
• Distress signal at sea
• Yachter's 'Help!'
• Nautical signal
• Only palindromic top-40 song title from a palindromic-name group
• Message that might be laid out in coconuts on a beach
• Signal officially replaced in 1999
• It has three dashes in the middle
• Rihanna's first #1 single
• Emergency transmission
• Maritime plea
• Cleaning product with two periods in its name
• Nine-character signal
• "Help!," at sea
• Big name in pads
• This puzzle's theme
• Palindromic call for help
• Urgent distress signal
• Non-Scratch Scrubber brand
• Longtime distress signal
• Help-needed announcement
• Message that might be spelled with rocks
• Morse code signal
• Sinking call
• Sinking ship's signal of old
• Distress-at-sea message
• Tense alert
• Message spelled out in the sand, sometimes
• "Help, we're sinking!"
• 'He-e-elp!'
• "Someone help me" ABBA tune
• Distress message
• Urgent appeal to the Coast Guard
• 'Help!' from a helmsman
• Message from the marooned
• Morse code plea
• Song on the album "ABBA"
• USCG call
• Help!
• Spanish article
• Maritime 'Mayday!'
• Request for an island getaway?
• "The Soapy Superhero"
• Bit of telegraphy
• Call to the USCG
• Tune from "Mamma Mia!"
• Nautical distress call
• Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot
• Opening track on ABBA's "Greatest Hits"
• Offshore a.p.b.
• Plea written with rocks
• Mayday
• Help! (on a ship)
• Help! (on the ocean)
• Help signal at sea
• Sea alert initials
• Naval distress signal
• Help signal, as sea
• Distress call on the ocean
• Scrubbing pad brand
• Ship's urgent message
• Ship's 911 call
• Message frantically tapped out
• Call for help at sea
• ... ___ …, decoded
• "Save us!"
• Distress signal that's also palindromic in Morse code
• "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" ___ Band
• Motley Crue "Same Ol' Situation (___)"
• The Police's "Message in a Bottle" distress call
• Police "I'll send an ___ to the world"
• Appeal for help
• Appeal of love on board ship
• Possible message from holed ship?
• An indication of distress
• A call for help
• So the head of security gets the message
• As sent when there's a bit of a hole in a ship?
• Palindrome named 1975 hit from a palindrome named band
• Brand with a Grill Mates variety
• Mayday call found in the starred answers
• Desperate Morse message
• Frantic signal
• ... ___ ...
• "Please rescue me!"
• Crisis call
• Emerg. call
• Letters of desperation
• Letters addressed to an airplane, perhaps
• Act II duet in "Mamma Mia!"
• What the Coast Guard may pick up
• Second love on first sight - help!
• Urgent call to the USCG
• Letters signaling trouble
• Request for aid
• Sailor's call for help
• Ship's emergency signal
• Morse distress signal
• Call to a rescuer
• Call from a sinking ship
• Letters that signal a call for help
• Help transmission
• Scratchy pad
• Signal back, too
• Letters formed by someone stranded on a deserted island
• Imperiled one's signal
• Cry on a sinking ship
• Maritime call for help
• Foundering ship's signal
• "We're sinking!"
• Brand of 42-Down
• Cramped dwellings, for short
• Alert of a sort
• Nine-symbol signal
• "Help us!," at sea
• Distress call on water
• Three-letter product with two periods
• Alert to a PT
• "Mayday!," on a ship
• "Mamma Mia!" song that begins "Where are those happy days?"
• Castaway's distress call
• Wet "Emergency!"
• Brief call for help
• Communique from Gilligan
• Message half of us get so wrong!
• "Help" variety
• Frantic transmission
• "Help a seafarer out!"
• Dots-and-dashes plea for help
• Plea to the USCG
• A message mostly hissed?
• "Help wanted" sign?
• ... ___ ..., in Morse code
• Critical message that's a hint to the six longest entries in this puzzle
• Message from a sinking ship
• It's sent in so sad circumstances
• USCG reception
• "I need help!"
• Desperate dots and dashes
• Urgent signal
• "Mayday!" precursor
• Distress letters of old
• Titanic's transmission
• Tapped-out plea
• Dots-and-dashes distress call
• What Clorox makes with steel
• Foundering signal
• What a flare can mean
• Thus the head of state gets the message
• Morse code plea, once
• Appeal for aid
• Emergency broadcast at sea
• Target of false backronyms
• Message in smoke signals, maybe
• Red-square emergency emoji
• Help line?
• "Help!"-ful soap pad brand
• A hissed message, nothing less?
• Letters of distress at sea
• Mayday message
• Help signal while floating
• Rihanna hit of 2006
• "Help wanted" message
• Help signal among choppy waves
• Not a nice message to send
• Urgent letters?
• Help signal on the Indian Ocean
• Distress signal for bobbers
• Rescue plea
• Seafaring distress letters
• Help signal far from shore
• "The ship is sinking!"
• "Help, quick! I'm sinking"
• Title of hits by Abba and Rihanna
• Help signal on an island
• Sailor's emergency signal
• Signal that's a palindrome in English and Morse code
• Impetus for a rescue mission
• Message in Morse code, maybe
• "Send help" signal
• "Help!" on the briny
• Classic distress call
• Help signal on the Chesapeake Bay
• "Help!" letters
• Letters calling for help
• Letters often meant to be read from afar
• "Send help!" message
• Rescue signal from the Atlantic
• Brand of pads
• "Help me!" letters
• Palindromic song from a palindromic band
• Emergency call in Morse code
• Lost-at-sea signal
• A dashed dotty broadcast appeal?
• Help signal from a yacht
• "Help, quick! There's water in the boat!"
• Rihanna song with the lyric "someone help me"
• Plea for rescue
• Help signal while sinking
• Nautical call for help
• ABBA song with the lyric "nothing else can save me"
• [Send assistance!]
• Help signal on the ocean
• Message often written in large letters
• "Help, please," to those in a sinking boat
• Brief alarm
• "I can't get this water out of the boat fast enough!"
• Aptly palindromic ABBA hit
• "We need help!" letters
• Mayday alternative
• Brand name that looks like it has a missing period
• Palindromic 33-Down hit
• "Help! We're having boat problems!"
• "Please help!"
• "Mayday! There's a leak in our boat!"
• Castaway's "Help!"
• Sea plea, briefly
• Boater's distress signal
• Boater's urgent signal
• Letters of urgency
• Letters spelled out with rocks on a desert island, in cartoons
• Letters requesting help
• Letters that shouldn't be written big for air rescue (a single V or X is best)
• It can also arise due to a bit of a hole in a ship
• "Mamma Mia!" song with the lyric "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
• "Help! We've sprung a leak!"
• "There's a hole in my boat!"
• "Help us pls!"
• Call for help repeated in the Police's "Message in a Bottle"
• Adoption of the International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906
• "Please send a boat to rescue my boat"
• Title of a Rihanna or ABBA hit
• Hit song title for Abba or Rihanna
• "Our boat is sinking!"
• ABBA classic
• Scouring brand
• As sent when there's a bit of a hole in a ship?
• Distress letters at sea
• Castaway's call for help
• "My boat's sprung a leak!"
• "Help me!"
• Letters sent in emergencies
• 6-Down hit with the lyric "Nothing else can save me"
• Letters often spelled in Morse code
• Message communicated as "short-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short"
• "Help us!" letters
• "Mamma Mia!" duet for Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep
• Palindromic plea meaning "Help us!"
• Hit song by ABBA or Rihanna
• Emer. message
• "I'm trapped on this island!"
• ••• – – – •••
• "Welp ... things are not going well on my boat!"
• Lost-at-sea plea
• Coded plea for help
• "A little help here!"
• "Our boat's in trouble!"
• This means trouble
• "Our ship is sinking!"
• 18-Across song with the refrain "please, someone help me"
• "A li'l help, please. My boat's in bad shape"
• "Please send assistance A.S.A.P.!"
• "Halp!"
• Letters written in the sand, maybe
• Mayday call, or a pattern found in 17-, 27-, 45-, and 60-Across
• A little "Help here!"?
• "I need a rescue" letters
• Name on a box by the sink
• Hit title for Abba or Rihanna
• "Come to our rescue!"
• Request for a tropical getaway, perhaps?
• ...___... in Morse
• Signal at sea
• Short cry for help
• Rihanna song with the lyric "Please, someone help me"
• Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
• Message that might be signaled with smoke
• Title of a #1 Rihanna song and #1 SZA album