Patois Crossword

Standard · Easy · No. 10:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Easy · No. 1

An easy standard Patois crossword with 16 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 People & Relationships: One's grandmother — and, very often in Jamaican life, the family elder (6)
  2. 5 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: Chatting or half-singing rhythmically over a riddim — the Jamaican vocal style, dating from the 1960s sound systems (8)
  3. 7 Animals, Plants & Nature: A large, smooth-scaled Jamaican lizard, deeply feared in country folklore (9)
  4. 9 Rastafari & Iyaric: Good, pleasing, and at peace — a state of everything being right and in harmony (4)
  5. 10 Food & Drink: The sapodilla — a small, round, rough brown-skinned fruit with sweet, soft, grainy brown flesh (9)
  6. 13 Rastafari & Iyaric: A discussion — especially a deep or spiritual one — a session (9)
  7. 14 Food & Drink: A slightly sweet, elongated fried dumpling made from flour, cornmeal, and sugar (8)

Down

  1. 1 Food & Drink: A starchy edible tuber (3)
  2. 2 Greetings & Conversation: To talk or speak (4)
  3. 3 Food & Drink: A small open Jamaican tart (7)
  4. 4 Descriptions & Emotions: A loud commotion, uproar, or disturbance — chaos, a noisy quarrel, or a great fuss (9)
  5. 6 People & Relationships: A close female friend, or a group of women bound together by friendship and mutual support (7)
  6. 8 Body, Health & Appearance: The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  7. 10 Food & Drink: To eat — especially to eat heartily, hungrily, or greedily (4)
  8. 11 Food & Drink: A deep-red drink brewed from the dried calyces (6)
  9. 12 Descriptions & Emotions: Boastful, show-offy, flashy (6)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Body, Health & Appearance, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Greetings & Conversation, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, People & Relationships, 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.

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