Patois Crossword

Standard · Medium · No. 10:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Medium · No. 1

A medium 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. Medium: A wider vocabulary. Clues are the meaning, and you can have wrong letters marked but never shown the answer.

Across

  1. 3 A stinging wasp, feared for its painful sting (9)
  2. 7 Fraud, hustling, or illegal and dishonest dealings (9)
  3. 8 A ____ — the great tropical storm that Jamaica braces for each season (9)
  4. 9 Beyond the words of a song, in Jamaican slang '____' means smooth talk or a chat-up line (6)
  5. 14 A public statement in church of what God has done for you (9)
  6. 15 A cat — the ordinary household or yard cat (4)
  7. 16 A strong, regal, righteous woman — the female counterpart to the Rastafari 'lion' (7)

Down

  1. 1 The sapodilla — a small, round, rough brown-skinned fruit with sweet, soft, grainy brown flesh (9)
  2. 2 The ____ or preacher who leads a church congregation (6)
  3. 4 The spider trickster hero of Jamaican folklore — small and weak, but so clever and cunning (6)
  4. 5 Afro-Jamaican folk magic (5)
  5. 6 A swamp or wetland (6)
  6. 10 A bit of money earned or scraped together (5)
  7. 11 Troublesome, difficult, or vexing — used of a person, a child, or a situation (5)
  8. 12 Natural, pure, and unprocessed — used above all for the Rastafari way of eating (4)
  9. 13 Flashy, showy, and attention-seeking — full of oneself (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Money, Work & Business, Music, Reggae & Dancehall, People & Relationships, 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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