Permanent
Crossword Clue & Answers

16 April 2021
Last seen in: Evening Standard Easy Crossword

We found 86 answers for the crossword clue 'Permanent', the most recent of which was seen in the Evening Standard Easy Crossword.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Permanent a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Permanent as an answer itself some 46 times.

Permanent is a single word clue made up of 9 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Evening Standard Easy Crossword' on Thursday, 22 April 2021 with the answer being ENDURING, but the most popular answer for this clue is ABIDING.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 22 Apr 2021
• The Daily Mail Quick - 7 Dec 2020
• The Guardian Quick - 14 Sep 2020
• The Daily Mail Quick - 27 Sep 2018

Definitions and usage

Before we get to our crossword answers for 'Permanent', take a look at the definitions and example uses below, sometimes these help you think of different words or phrases that are common to 'Permanent' and give you a hint.

• A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
• Not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition; "permanent brain damage"
• Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

SET
Several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press"

4 Letters

FAST
Abstaining from food

FIRM
The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"

PERM
A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

5 Letters

FIXED
Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes"

QUIET
A disposition free from stress or emotion

QUITE
To a degree (not used with a negative); "quite tasty"; "quite soon"; "quite ill"; "quite rich"

RIGID
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

SOLID
Uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks; "a solid line across the page"; "solid sheets of water"

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

STILL
(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

TIGHT
(of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game"

USUAL
Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"

6 Letters

BRACED
Held up by braces or buttresses

HOOKED
Addicted to a drug

LOCKED

NAILED

ROOTED
Absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment"

SECURE
Free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field"

STABLE
A farm building for housing horses or other livestock

STEADY
Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm"

STURDY
Substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"

7 Letters

ABIDING
Unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"

DURABLE
Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"

ENDLESS
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"

ETERNAL
Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

FOREVER
For a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss

HITCHED

INSTONE

LASTING
Retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"

LOCATED
Situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank"

REGULAR
A dependable follower (especially in party politics); "he is one of the party regulars"

SETTLED
Not changeable; "a period of settled weather"

UNDYING
Never dying; "his undying fame"

8 Letters

ANCHORED

ATTACHED
Being joined in close association; "affiliated clubs"; "all art schools whether independent or attached to universities"

COIFFURE
Arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"

CONSTANT
A quantity that does not vary

ENDURING
Unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"

EXISTING
Existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"

FORKEEPS
For the winner to keep all; "they played for keeps"

HABITUAL
Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"

IMMOBILE
Securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"

IMMORTAL
Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

IMMOTILE
(of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement

INFINITE
The unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite"

LIFELONG
Continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art"

MADEFAST

REPEATED
Recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"

SITUATED
Situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank"

STANDING
The act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position

UNFADING
Of an imaginary flower that never fades

9 Letters

CONTINUAL
`continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)

DIUTURNAL

HAIRSTYLE
The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)

IMMOVABLE
Not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills"

IMMUTABLE
Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature; "the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God"

INDELIBLE
Cannot be removed or erased; "an indelible stain"; "indelible memories"

PERDURING

PERENNIAL
(botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more

PERPETUAL
Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

STEADFAST
Firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance"

TENACIOUS
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

10 Letters

CHANGELESS
Remaining the same for indefinitely long times

CONTINUING
Remaining in force or being carried on without letup; "the act provided a continuing annual appropriation"; "the continuing struggle to put food on the table"

HERETOSTAY

INVARIABLE
A quantity that does not vary

INVETERATE
In a habitual and longstanding manner; "smoking chronically"

PERDURABLE
Very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"

PERSISTENT
Retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"

STATIONARY
Not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery"

UNCHANGING
Showing little if any change; "a static population"

11 Letters

ESTABLISHED
Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

EVERLASTING
Any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

IRREVOCABLE
Incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare

LONGLASTING

NEVERENDING

12 Letters

DEATHDEFYING

IMPERISHABLE
Not perishable

INDISSOLUBLE
(of a substance) incapable of being dissolved

INTERMINABLE
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"

IRREVERSIBLE
Incapable of being reversed; "irreversible momentum toward revolution"

UNCHANGEABLE
Not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the unchangeable facts of life"

13 Letters

CARVEDINSTONE
No longer changeable; "the agreement is not yet set in stone"

PERMANENTWAVE
A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

14 Letters

INDESTRUCTIBLE
Not easily destroyed