diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index 01ae61a10..2ead283a6 100644
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.386 $ $NHDT-Date: 1607754748 2020/12/12 06:32:28 $
+NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.390 $ $NHDT-Date: 1607895902 2020/12/13 21:45:02 $
 
 General Fixes and Modified Features
 -----------------------------------
@@ -551,6 +551,8 @@ Qt+OSX: add a separate nethack->Quit menu entry with different functionality;
 Qt+OSX: since menu entry help->"About Qt NetHack" gets hijacked and becomes
 	"nethack->About nethack", add a separate help->_About_Qt_NetHack_
 	which stays where intended and brings up the same information
+Qt+OSX: suppress unwanted "Search [______]" action from being inserted as the
+	first entry in the menubar's "Help" dropdown menu
 tiles: add indicator of thonged portion to aklys tile
 tty: role and race selection menus weren't filtering out potential choices
 	which got excluded by OPTIONS=align:!lawful or !neutral or !chaotic
diff --git a/win/Qt/Qt-issues.txt b/win/Qt/Qt-issues.txt
index 98c4621a6..c38fca661 100644
--- a/win/Qt/Qt-issues.txt
+++ b/win/Qt/Qt-issues.txt
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ around by giving focus to some other application (which will put up
 its own menu bar) and then back to nethack (thereby reloading nethack's
 menu bar).
 
-On OSX, a "Search [______]" action is inserted as the first entry of
-the dropdown Help menu on the toolbar.  NetHack has no control over
-what it does or where it looks, so it should be eliminated somehow.
-(It is not releated to nethack's search command, nor the interception
-of an attempt to insert "Search" into the dropdown Action menu.)
-
 Sometimes scrolling a menu leaves the displayed text not matching what
 nethack thinks is displayed, so making a selection by mouse click may
 occasionally pick the wrong item.  There's usually a visual clue when
diff --git a/win/Qt/qt_main.cpp b/win/Qt/qt_main.cpp
index a8bbebed8..eb6cd8af9 100644
--- a/win/Qt/qt_main.cpp
+++ b/win/Qt/qt_main.cpp
@@ -781,7 +781,28 @@ NetHackQtMainWindow::NetHackQtMainWindow(NetHackQtKeyBuffer& ks) :
 	info->setTitle("Info");
 	menubar->addMenu(info);
 	menubar->addSeparator();
+#ifndef MACOSX
 	help->setTitle("Help");
+#else
+        // On OSX, an entry in the menubar called "Help" will get an
+        // extra action, "Search [______]", inserted as the first entry.
+        // We have no control over what it does and don't want it.
+        //
+        // Using actions() to fetch a list of all entries doesn't find it,
+        // so we don't have its widget pointer to pass to removeAction().
+        //
+        // Altering the name with an invisible character to inhibit
+        // string matching is ludicrous but keeps the unwanted action
+        // from getting inserted into the "Help" menu behind our back.
+        // Underscore works too and is more robust but unless we prepend
+        // it to every entry, "_Help" would stand out as strange.
+	help->setTitle("\177Help");
+        // (Renaming back to "Help" after the fact does reset the menu's
+        // name but it also results in the Search action being added.
+        // Perhaps a custom context menu that changes its name to "Help"
+        // as it is being shown--and possibly changes back afterward--
+        // would work but the name mangling hack is much simpler.)
+#endif
 	menubar->addMenu(help);
     }