Patois Crossword

Standard · Easy · No. 30:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Easy · No. 3

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. 4 Money, Work & Business: Fraud, hustling, or illegal and dishonest dealings (9)
  2. 6 Food & Drink: The beloved sweet tropical fruit, of which Jamaica boasts dozens of named varieties (5)
  3. 8 Food & Drink: The sapodilla — a small, round, rough brown-skinned fruit with sweet, soft, grainy brown flesh (9)
  4. 10 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: An exclusive, custom recording made for one sound system (8)
  5. 12 Food & Drink: The prized reef fish — especially the ____ (7)
  6. 14 Food & Drink: A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced with ginger… (5)
  7. 15 Food & Drink: A wild, sprawling bitter vine (7)

Down

  1. 1 Clothing & Style: The red-and-white (sometimes yellow) plaid madras cloth (7)
  2. 2 Culture, Heritage & History: A masquerade tradition performed at Christmas (8)
  3. 3 Actions & Verbs: To go, move on, or make one's way to a place — and also to progress or advance (7)
  4. 5 Food & Drink: Allspice — the dried berry of the ____ tree, and the single most important spice in Jamaican cooking (7)
  5. 7 Body, Health & Appearance: The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  6. 9 Money, Work & Business: To work hard and resourcefully to earn a living, by any honest means available (6)
  7. 10 Superstition, Folklore & Spirituality: A ghost or malevolent spirit of the dead (5)
  8. 11 Animals, Plants & Nature: Wind of any strength (6)
  9. 13 Animals, Plants & Nature: A cat — the ordinary household or yard cat (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, Clothing & Style, Culture, Heritage & History, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, 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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