| Text | Length |
| Help-wanted request | 19 |
| Help request | 12 |
| Foundering plea | 15 |
| Flashed message | 15 |
| Flare, perhaps | 14 |
| Flare, maybe | 12 |
| Distressful call | 16 |
| Distress code | 13 |
| Desperate trio | 14 |
| Desperate signal | 16 |
| Desperate initials | 18 |
| Dashed-off plea? | 16 |
| CQD successor | 13 |
| Castaway's note | 19 |
| Call in a calamity | 18 |
| Call for aid | 12 |
| Call at sea, maybe | 18 |
| Appeal for help | 15 |
| Andrea Doria msg. | 17 |
| Andrea Doria call | 17 |
| Abba hit song, 1975 | 19 |
| A plea at sea | 13 |
| 911 on the ocean | 16 |
| 911 call, e.g. | 14 |
| 2006 Rihanna hit | 16 |
| #1 hit for Rihanna | 18 |
| "Mayday" | 18 |
| 'Help us!' | 18 |
| . . . - - - . . . | 17 |
| ____ yer old man! | 17 |
| Slugger Sammy | 13 |
| Sammy of baseball | 17 |
| 1998 N.L. MVP | 13 |
| Former Cub slugger | 18 |
| Sammy the slugger | 17 |
| MVP slugger Sammy | 17 |
| Sammy of the Cubs | 17 |
| Former Cubs slugger | 19 |
| Former Cub star | 15 |
| Cubs slugger Sammy | 18 |
| Cubs great Sammy | 16 |
| Cub with records | 16 |
| Wrigley slugger | 15 |
| Wrigley Field star | 18 |
| Swinging Sammy | 14 |
| Slugging superstar | 18 |
| Slugging Sammy | 14 |
| Sammy of sports | 15 |
| Sammy in Chicago | 16 |
| N.L. pitcher | 12 |
| MVP slugger of 1998 | 19 |
| McGwire rival, once | 19 |
| McGwire rival | 13 |
| Longtime Cub Sammy | 18 |
| Homer-hitting Sammy | 19 |
| Dominican slugger | 17 |
| Diamond cutter? | 15 |
| Cubs slugger | 12 |
| Cubs legend Sammy | 17 |
| Cub with a club | 15 |
| Chicago slugger | 15 |
| All-Star Sammy | 14 |
| 1998 NL MVP Sammy | 17 |
| 1998 N.L. MVP Sammy | 19 |
| 1998 MVP slugger | 16 |
| 1998 baseball MVP | 17 |
| Truly tragic | 12 |
| "A pity!" | 19 |
| Middlin' | 12 |
| "Meh" | 15 |
| Just passable | 13 |
| Not good, not bad | 17 |
| Only average | 12 |
| Not that great | 14 |
| Not bad, not good | 17 |
| Not that hot | 12 |
| Like average grades | 19 |
| Just tolerable | 14 |
| Indifferently | 13 |
| Deserving a C | 13 |
| Comme ci comme ca | 17 |
| Worth a C, perhaps | 18 |
| Worth a C, maybe | 16 |
| Sort of in between | 18 |
| Passing fair | 12 |
| Passable, barely | 16 |
| Okay but not great | 18 |
| Not too great | 13 |
| Not too good | 12 |
| Not too badly | 13 |
| Not inspiring | 13 |
| Not great or awful | 18 |
| Meriting a C | 12 |
| Like a grade of C | 17 |
| Like a C average | 16 |
| Just "eh" | 19 |
| Just ... meh | 12 |
| It's only fair? | 19 |
| Far from wonderful | 18 |
| Comme ci, comme sa | 18 |
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