"Despicable Me" villain
The crossword clue ""Despicable Me" villain" is answered by GRU, a 3-letter entry. Used 14 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GRU
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GRU answer page.
Used 14 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GRU
Every other clue in this collection answered by GRU, most used first.
- "Despicable Me" supervillain - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- "Despicable Me" character voiced by Steve Carell - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- "Despicable Me" protagonist - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "Despicable Me" antihero - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Steve Carell's "Despicable Me" character - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "Despicable Me" character - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Greet the villain - BOO, used 34 times
- "Superman" villain Luthor - LEX, used 21 times
- "Star Wars" villain Kylo - REN, used 18 times
- Kylo ___ ("Star Wars" villain) - REN, used 14 times
- Despicable - LOW, used 13 times
- Tolkien villain - ORC, used 9 times
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