Distress signal Crossword Clue

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Distress signal Crossword Answer

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FLARE

(5 letters)

MAYDAY

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DISTRESS (noun)
1. psychological suffering
2. the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
DISTRESS (verb)
1. bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
2. cause mental pain to
SIGNAL (verb)
1. be a signal for or a symptom of
2. communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
SIGNAL (noun)
1. any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
2. an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes
SIGNAL (adjective)
1. notably out of the ordinary

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

FLARE
(5 letters)
MAYDAY
(6 letters)

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