Patois Crossword

Mini · Medium · No. 160:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Medium · No. 16

A medium 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. Medium: A wider vocabulary. Clues are the meaning, and you can have wrong letters marked but never shown the answer.

Across

  1. 3 The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  2. 4 A mixed-breed dog of no particular pedigree — the common Jamaican street or yard dog (7)
  3. 5 Skinny, and sickly-looking — thin, meagre, and short on health or flesh (6)
  4. 7 The smallest parish in Jamaica, on the north-west coast, with its capital at Lucea (7)

Down

  1. 1 A large parish in south-central Jamaica, with its capital at May Pen — known for its farming (9)
  2. 2 An Afro-Jamaican spiritual tradition of healing (4)
  3. 3 The red-and-white (sometimes yellow) plaid madras cloth (7)
  4. 6 Chiefly 'to make', but with two more everyday jobs (3)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Actions & Verbs, Animals, Plants & Nature, Body, Health & Appearance, Clothing & Style, Descriptions & Emotions, Places & Directions, 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.

More to play

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