Wire service initials
The crossword clue "Wire service initials" is answered by UPI, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UPI
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UPI answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 5 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
- 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
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.
- Wire measure - MIL, used 190 times
- Service charge - FEE, used 186 times
- Explosive initials - TNT, used 164 times
- Nest egg initials - IRA, used 66 times
- Put into service - USE, used 62 times
- Press into service - USE, used 54 times
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