Patois Crossword

Standard · Easy · No. 50:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Easy · No. 5

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. 1 Money, Work & Business: To work hard and resourcefully to earn a living, by any honest means available (6)
  2. 4 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: A big, lively party or dance event — and, as an adjective, anything exciting, top-quality, or hot (8)
  3. 6 Food & Drink: Allspice — the dried berry of the ____ tree, and the single most important spice in Jamaican cooking (7)
  4. 8 Grammar & Function Words: 'They' or '____', but it does more than the English pronoun (3)
  5. 9 Actions & Verbs: Going on; carry on (5)
  6. 12 Superstition, Folklore & Spirituality: Afro-Jamaican folk magic (5)
  7. 13 Descriptions & Emotions: Greedy, grasping, and excessively covetous (6)
  8. 14 Descriptions & Emotions: Clean, new, and stylish — 'him look ____' means he's sharply dressed (5)

Down

  1. 1 Money, Work & Business: Working hard and resourcefully to earn a living (8)
  2. 2 Money, Work & Business: A con man and the con itself — a trickster (6)
  3. 3 Greetings & Conversation: To meet up with someone, make contact, or connect socially (4)
  4. 5 Music, Reggae & Dancehall: Jamaica's original rural folk music (5)
  5. 7 Food & Drink: To eat — especially to eat heartily, hungrily, or greedily (4)
  6. 10 Grammar & Function Words: A multi-purpose question and linking word — 'where', 'what', or the relative 'that/which/who' (3)
  7. 11 Actions & Verbs: To steal — and, as a noun, a ____ (4)
  8. 13 Greetings & Conversation: An exclamation of dismissal, mild annoyance, impatience, or disbelief (3)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Actions & Verbs, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, Greetings & Conversation, 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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