Patois Crossword

Mini · Medium · No. 280:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Medium · No. 28

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 Jamaica's soca-driven street festival (8)
  2. 6 A fused contraction of '____' (5)
  3. 8 Right here; this exact spot — 'yah' (here) intensified by 'so' to mean 'right here' (4)

Down

  1. 1 Two nearly opposite things, told apart by tone (6)
  2. 2 Troubles, misfortunes, and hardships (7)
  3. 3 Sharp stomach or gut pains from gas or colic — the cramping '____' (5)
  4. 5 Unity — the word remade in Rastafari speech so it opens with the affirming 'I'… (5)
  5. 7 A tough, woody climbing vine ('withe') that hangs from trees and winds through the bush (4)

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, Dance, Party & Celebration, Descriptions & Emotions, Grammar & Function Words, 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

Back to all Patois crosswords, try the daily word game Guess Di Word, or take a Patois quiz. You can print this puzzle from your browser's print menu.