| Smoke signal message, maybe | 27 |
| Skipper's distress call | 27 |
| Ship's help signal | 22 |
| Sailor's distress signal | 28 |
| Mariner's distress signal | 29 |
| Mariner's distress call | 27 |
| Mariner's call for help | 27 |
| Intl. signal adopted in 1912 | 28 |
| Help-wanted announcement | 24 |
| Castaway's message | 22 |
| Call in a watery calamity | 25 |
| Brand found in the kitchen | 26 |
| "Mayday" relative | 27 |
| "Mayday!" relative | 28 |
| "Mamma Mia!" number | 29 |
| "Help!" at sea | 24 |
| "Hel-l-l-lp!" | 23 |
| "Emergency!" | 22 |
| ''Mayday!'' | 27 |
| What the USCG may respond to | 28 |
| Universal signal since 1908 | 27 |
| Tapped-out message, often | 25 |
| Symbolic "help" | 25 |
| Stranded sailor's call | 26 |
| Sparks's last gasp | 22 |
| Sparks's frantic message | 28 |
| Sparks's frantic call | 25 |
| Sparks's desperate call | 27 |
| Six dits and three dahs | 23 |
| Sinking ship's signal | 25 |
| Sinking feeling outburst? | 25 |
| Signal from a sinking ship | 26 |
| Sig. for the shipwrecked | 24 |
| Ship's distress signal | 26 |
| Ship emergency letters | 22 |
| Seaman's "911" | 28 |
| Salt's 'Help!' | 26 |
| Plea before going under | 23 |
| Ocean's "911" | 27 |
| Nautical "Help!" | 26 |
| Marooned person's message | 29 |
| Marine "mayday" | 25 |
| Lusitania's signal | 22 |
| Letters to the Coast Guard | 26 |
| Letters from the high seas | 26 |
| Letters from desperate people | 29 |
| International distress sig. | 27 |
| Help-wanted indication | 22 |
| Help-wanted announcement? | 25 |
| Help wanted announcement? | 25 |
| Help plea from the sea | 22 |
| Helmsman's panicked plea | 28 |
| Familiar telegraphy sequence | 28 |
| Emergency letters at sea | 24 |
| Distress-signal letters | 23 |
| Desperate call, for short | 25 |
| Common bit of Morse code | 24 |
| Clorox cleaning product | 23 |
| Castaway's letters | 22 |
| Call from the distressed | 24 |
| Alert for the Coast Guard | 25 |
| 2007 Jonas Brothers song | 24 |
| [I'm in trouble here!] | 26 |
| "Send help now" | 25 |
| "Rescue me!" | 22 |
| "Mayday!" signal | 26 |
| "Mayday! Mayday!" | 27 |
| "Mamma Mia" number | 28 |
| "I'm drowning" | 28 |
| "Help!" to a sailor | 29 |
| "Come and get us!" | 28 |
| "...and ___ yours!" | 29 |
| "--- yer old man!" | 28 |
| "___ yer old man!" | 28 |
| ···---··· | 27 |
| ... --- Â…, decoded | 22 |
| 1998 National League MVP | 24 |
| Former Cubs slugger Sammy | 25 |
| Cubs all-time home run leader | 29 |
| 2000 N.L. home run champ | 24 |
| Dominican slugger Sammy | 23 |
| 2000 Home Run Derby winner | 26 |
| Sammy with over 600 homers | 26 |
| One of Maris's overtakers | 29 |
| McGwire's 1998 rival | 24 |
| He smacked 66 in '98 | 24 |
| He hit 66 homers in 1998 | 24 |
| Former Wrigley Field star | 25 |
| 1998 home run record chaser | 27 |
| Three-time 60-homer man | 23 |
| Slugger who rivaled McGwire | 27 |
| Slugger who retired in 2009 | 27 |
| Slammin' Chicagoan | 22 |
| Seven-time All-Star Sammy | 25 |
| Recently outed steroid abuser | 29 |
| One-time Cub with a big club | 28 |
| One-time Chicago slugger | 24 |
| McGwire's rival in 1998 | 27 |
| Ivette of Eden's Crush | 26 |
| Hitter of 66 in '98 | 23 |