Patois Crossword

Big · Easy · No. 50:00

Patois Crossword: Big · Easy · No. 5

An easy big Patois crossword with 24 clues. Every answer is a real Jamaican Patois word from the dictionary, and each links to its entry when you finish. Easy: The most familiar words. Meanings come with a category, every word starts with its first letter filled in, and you can check and reveal.

Across

  1. 4 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: The instrumental backing track of a reggae or dancehall song (6)
  2. 7 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: A big, lively party or dance event — and, as an adjective, anything exciting, top-quality, or hot (8)
  3. 9 Food & Drink: A flat, round flatbread made from grated cassava (5)
  4. 10 Places & Directions: Wild, uncultivated land — thick vegetation, the deep countryside, or any overgrown, untended ground (4)
  5. 12 Money, Work & Business: Working hard and resourcefully to earn a living (8)
  6. 14 Rastafari & Iyaric: God, in Rastafari belief (3)
  7. 15 Food & Drink: The sapodilla — a small, round, rough brown-skinned fruit with sweet, soft, grainy brown flesh (9)
  8. 17 People & Relationships: An affectionate word for one's father, and for an older man held in respect and fondness (5)
  9. 19 Money, Work & Business: To show off and flaunt wealth, style, or success (5)
  10. 20 Descriptions & Emotions: Clean, new, and stylish — 'him look ____' means he's sharply dressed (5)
  11. 21 Money, Work & Business: A large basket or pannier for carrying farm produce and goods (6)

Down

  1. 1 Clothing & Style: Desert boots and shoes (6)
  2. 2 Superstition, Folklore & Spirituality: An Afro-Jamaican religious tradition of Central African (6)
  3. 3 Actions & Verbs: To stand — but far more often to stay, remain, or wait, and to describe how something is or looks (3)
  4. 5 Food & Drink: A sweet steamed pudding of grated sweet potato or cornmeal mixed with coconut (6)
  5. 6 Rastafari & Iyaric: Good, pleasing, and at peace — a state of everything being right and in harmony (4)
  6. 8 Money, Work & Business: A small amount of money (6)
  7. 9 Descriptions & Emotions: To break — but reaching far beyond the plain sense (4)
  8. 10 Dance, Party & Celebration: A classic dancehall dance move of the early 1990s (5)
  9. 11 Food & Drink: The prized reef fish — especially the ____ (7)
  10. 13 Food & Drink: A wild, sprawling bitter vine (7)
  11. 15 Food & Drink: To eat — especially to eat heartily, hungrily, or greedily (4)
  12. 16 Food & Drink: A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced with ginger… (5)
  13. 18 Animals, Plants & Nature: A cat — the ordinary household or yard cat (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Actions & Verbs, Animals, Plants & Nature, Clothing & Style, Dance, Party & Celebration, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, People & Relationships, Places & Directions, Rastafari & Iyaric, Superstition, Folklore & Spirituality. When you finish, each answer shows its meaning, its pronunciation and an example sentence.

The number in brackets after a clue is the length of the answer, and (3,5) means two words of three and five letters, typed with no space. Patois has no single spelling, so if you type another spelling the dictionary records, it counts.

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