Steve Carell's "Despicable Me" character

The answer

GRU

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GRU answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GRU

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• "Despicable Me" supervillain - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Despicable Me" villain - used 14 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
• "Despicable Me" character - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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