Patois Crossword

Mini · Easy · No. 80:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Easy · No. 8

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. 3 Food & Drink: The prized reef fish — especially the ____ (7)
  2. 5 Money, Work & Business: The open-air ____ where higglers and farmers sell fresh produce, ground provisions, fish, and goods (6)
  3. 6 Rastafari & Iyaric: Natural, pure, and unprocessed — used above all for the Rastafari way of eating (4)
  4. 7 Animals, Plants & Nature: The small freshwater crayfish or shrimp found in Jamaica's rivers, prized as a delicacy (5)

Down

  1. 1 Places & Directions: Abroad — any country outside Jamaica, and above all the United States, Britain, and Canada (6)
  2. 2 Food & Drink: A slightly sweet, elongated fried dumpling made from flour, cornmeal, and sugar (8)
  3. 3 Money, Work & Business: A con man and the con itself — a trickster (6)
  4. 4 Food & Drink: A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced with ginger… (5)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, Places & Directions, 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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