A.P. rival

The answer

UPI

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for UPI

Every other clue in this collection answered by UPI, most used first.

• AP rival - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Reuters rival - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• News org. - used 36 times, most recently in 2018
• News letters - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• News agcy. - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Wire service inits. - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Reuters competitor - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• AP competitor - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• News initials - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Wire service letters - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• News inits. - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Wire service initials - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Longtime news inits. - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• News service - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Reuters alternative - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• FedEx rival - UPS, used 145 times
• "Today" rival, briefly - GMA, used 75 times
• MSN rival - AOL, used 67 times
• Rep.'s rival - DEM, used 67 times
• AOL rival - MSN, used 61 times
• Brillo rival - SOS, used 57 times

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