UV-blocking initials
The crossword clue "UV-blocking initials" is answered by SPF, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2019. 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
SPF
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPF answer page.
Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPF
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPF, most used first.
- Tanning lotion letters - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Lotion letters - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunscreen letters - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Sunblock letters - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Letters on a Coppertone bottle - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Beach lotion letters - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Block letters? - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Suntan lotion letters - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Letters on a sunscreen bottle - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- UV-blocking letters - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Beach bottle letters - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Coppertone letters - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunscreen stat - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- UV-blocking stat - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunblock stat - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tanning lotion abbr. - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- UV ray-blocking stat - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Beach lotion abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunscreen abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
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- Nest egg initials - IRA, used 66 times
- Ike's initials - DDE, used 47 times
- Ambulance initials - EMS, used 46 times
- Draft initials - SSS, used 46 times
- Genetic initials - RNA, used 39 times
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