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The Clue

Brillo alternative (3 letter answer)

The Answer

SOS

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Notes

The answer SOS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.

Related Clues

"Help!"
Help!
"Mayday!"
___ pad
Brillo rival
Call in a calamity
Call for help
Call letters?
Call at sea
Castaway's call
Cry at sea
Distress call
Distress signal
Emergency signal
Mayday, in a way
Mayday's cousin
Message from the Titanic
Morse recourse
Morse recourse?
Morse resource
Relative of mayday
Sea signal
"Send help!"
Shipwreck signal
Sparks's "Help!"
Titanic message
U.S.C.G. call
U.S.C.G. stimulus
911 call, e.g.
Andrea Doria msg.
Certain smoke signal
Coast Guard concern
Frantic signal at sea
Help wanted advertisement?
Help-wanted letters
Lusitania's last gasp
Response to a sinking feeling?
Sparks's last gasp
Sinking ship's call for help
"I'll send an ___ to the world" (Police lyric)

Definition

SOS as a noun:

1. an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

SO as a noun:

1. (sol, soh, so) = the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization