Patois Crossword

Mini · Medium · No. 210:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Medium · No. 21

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. 4 The smallest and highest-pitched of the three sacred Nyabinghi hand drums — also called the 'repeater' (5)
  2. 5 Unity — the word remade in Rastafari speech so it opens with the affirming 'I'… (5)
  3. 6 The communities of Africans (7)
  4. 8 A ghost or malevolent spirit of the dead (5)

Down

  1. 1 A large, smooth-scaled Jamaican lizard, deeply feared in country folklore (9)
  2. 2 A public statement in church of what God has done for you (9)
  3. 3 The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  4. 7 The first modern Jamaican popular music genre, from the early 1960s (3)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Body, Health & Appearance, Culture, Heritage & History, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, 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.

More to play

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