Patois Crossword

Standard · Easy · No. 60:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Easy · No. 6

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. 2 Food & Drink: A slightly sweet, elongated fried dumpling made from flour, cornmeal, and sugar (8)
  2. 5 Superstition, Folklore & Spirituality: Afro-Jamaican folk magic (5)
  3. 7 Descriptions & Emotions: To break — but reaching far beyond the plain sense (4)
  4. 8 Descriptions & Emotions: Fresh, clean, brand new, and looking sharp — something in flawless, impressive condition (5)
  5. 10 Descriptions & Emotions: Strong, sturdy, fearless, and full of fortitude despite small size — the word carrying the specific, cherished idea (8)
  6. 12 Places & Directions: The wealthier, more affluent parts of Kingston (6)
  7. 14 Places & Directions: A drainage ____ or ditch — and, by extension, the poor inner-city neighbourhoods (5)
  8. 15 Money, Work & Business: A traditional rotating savings scheme in which a group of people each pay a fixed sum (7)
  9. 16 Food & Drink: A traditional Jamaican snack of dried corn that has been parched (5)

Down

  1. 1 Rastafari & Iyaric: The promised land of Rastafari belief — Africa, and Ethiopia in particular (4)
  2. 3 Places & Directions: The porch or covered gallery running along the front or side of a Jamaican house — the shady, open-air spot (8)
  3. 4 Descriptions & Emotions: Little or small — in size, amount, or degree (6)
  4. 6 Money, Work & Business: Working hard and resourcefully to earn a living (8)
  5. 9 Rastafari & Iyaric: A discussion — especially a deep or spiritual one — a session (9)
  6. 11 Food & Drink: A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced with ginger… (5)
  7. 13 Money, Work & Business: To show off and flaunt wealth, style, or success (5)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, Places & Directions, Rastafari & Iyaric, 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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