"Persistence of Memory" painter

The answer

DALI

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DALI answer page.

Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DALI

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

• Surrealist Salvador - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• Spanish surrealist - used 74 times, most recently in 2023
• Artist Salvador - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Mustachioed surrealist - used 35 times, most recently in 2018
• Painter Salvador - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Spanish painter - used 30 times, most recently in 2011
• Painter of limp watches - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Persistence of Memory" painter - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Surrealist painter Salvador - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Surrealist painter - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
• Limp watch painter - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
• Noted surrealist - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Salvador - used 17 times, most recently in 1997
• "The Persistence of Memory" artist - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Surrealist - used 15 times, most recently in 2006
• Mustachioed artist - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• "Swans Reflecting Elephants" painter - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Lobster Telephone" artist - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Modern painter. - used 10 times, most recently in 1973
• Flamboyant surrealist - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Spanish artist - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• "The Hallucinogenic Toreador" painter - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Famed Surrealist - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Painter of melting watches - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Spanish surrealist Salvador - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Painter of melting clocks - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Picasso contemporary - used 7 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Painter Magritte - RENE, used 180 times
• Painter Chagall - MARC, used 136 times
• Memory unit - BYTE, used 78 times
• Spanish painter - SERT, used 71 times
• Painter Mondrian - PIET, used 63 times
• Swiss painter - KLEE, used 57 times

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