News initials

The answer

UPI

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

Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 6 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
• 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
• A.P. rival - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• News service - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Reuters alternative - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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• Nest egg initials - IRA, used 66 times
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• Ambulance initials - EMS, used 46 times
• Draft initials - SSS, used 46 times
• Genetic initials - RNA, used 39 times

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