Patois Crossword

Mini · Easy · No. 120:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Easy · No. 12

An easy mini Patois crossword with 8 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. 2 Grammar & Function Words: 'They' or '____', but it does more than the English pronoun (3)
  2. 5 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: Chatting or half-singing rhythmically over a riddim — the Jamaican vocal style, dating from the 1960s sound systems (8)
  3. 7 Food & Drink: The beloved sweet tropical fruit, of which Jamaica boasts dozens of named varieties (5)
  4. 8 People & Relationships: A close female friend, or a group of women bound together by friendship and mutual support (7)

Down

  1. 1 Money, Work & Business: Working hard and resourcefully to earn a living (8)
  2. 3 Animals, Plants & Nature: The small, quick, weasel-like animal introduced to Jamaica in the 1800s to control rats and snakes… (8)
  3. 4 Rastafari & Iyaric: The promised land of Rastafari belief — Africa, and Ethiopia in particular (4)
  4. 6 Money, Work & Business: A con man and the con itself — a trickster (6)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, Money, Work & Business, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, People & Relationships, Rastafari & Iyaric. 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.

More to play

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