Patois Crossword

Mini · Medium · No. 630:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Medium · No. 63

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. 2 Abroad — any country outside Jamaica, and above all the United States, Britain, and Canada (6)
  2. 5 A traditional rotating savings scheme in which a group of people each pay a fixed sum (7)
  3. 6 The prized dark-red hardwood tree (8)
  4. 7 The ____ or preacher who leads a church congregation (6)

Down

  1. 1 Fraud, hustling, or illegal and dishonest dealings (9)
  2. 3 Fellow members of the Rastafari community, regarded as spiritual kin (5)
  3. 4 Father — one's dad, and by extension an older man of authority or respect (4)
  4. 6 An Afro-Jamaican spiritual tradition of healing (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Money, Work & Business, People & Relationships, 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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