The Clue
Distressful call (3 letter answer)
The Answer
SOS
Tags
Notes
The answer SOS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 50 puzzles.
Related Clues
"Help!"
Help!
M'aidez!
Call for help
Call at sea
Castaway's call
Castaway's note
Cry at sea
Distress call
Distress letters
Distress signal
Emergency message
Emergency signal
"Help!" at sea
Kind of pad
"Mayday!" cousin
"Mayday!" relative
Mayday relative
Mayday's cousin
Morse recourse
Msg. from the Titanic
Pad name
A plea at sea
Plea at sea
"Rescue me!"
Sea call
"Send help!"
Sturdy pad
U.S.C.G. call
Andrea Doria signal
Brillo pad competitor
Certain smoke signal
Helmsman's panicked plea
Help-wanted indicator
"Help wanted" letters
Lusitania's last gasp
"Mamma Mia!" song
Marooned person's message
Message in a bottle, maybe
"___ our old man!"
Signal that replaced "CQD"
"___ yer old man!"
Message that's often repeated
Plea before going under
Smoke signal message, maybe
It may be tapped out
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