Entitled woman with perm regularly confronting the papers (7)
I believe the answer is:
empress
'entitled woman' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'perm regularly confronting the papers' is the wordplay.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'confronting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the papers' becomes 'press' (the newspaper industry).
The alternate letters of 'perm' are 'em'.
'em'+'press'='EMPRESS'
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for empress that I've seen before include "1 across was from 1877" , "She rules a vast realm" , "Josephine, for instance" , "Catherine the Great, for example" , "She rules over many territories" .)