Roadside distress signal
The crossword clue "Roadside distress signal" is answered by FLARE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLARE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLARE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLARE
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLARE, most used first.
- Distress signal - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Emergency signal - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Signal light - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Emergency light - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Signal. - used 8 times, most recently in 1969
- Burst of light - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Bell-bottoms feature - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Highway warning - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Motorist's aid - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Stranded motorist's signal - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Warning signal - ALARM, used 20 times
- Roadside stopover - MOTEL, used 18 times
- Warning signal - ALERT, used 18 times
- Deep distress - AGONY, used 14 times
- Roadside eatery - DINER, used 14 times
- Roadside stop - MOTEL, used 13 times
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