Patois Crossword

Standard · Medium · No. 30:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Medium · No. 3

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. 1 Clothes; garments — slang for one's outfit, especially fresh, stylish clothes (5)
  2. 5 The open-air ____ where higglers and farmers sell fresh produce, ground provisions, fish, and goods (6)
  3. 7 A large parish in south-central Jamaica, with its capital at May Pen — known for its farming (9)
  4. 8 The little corner ____ — the small neighbourhood store (4)
  5. 9 A leafy green vegetable (8)
  6. 10 A loud commotion, uproar, or disturbance — chaos, a noisy quarrel, or a great fuss (9)
  7. 11 Natural, pure, and unprocessed — used above all for the Rastafari way of eating (4)
  8. 12 Jamaica's soca-driven street festival (8)

Down

  1. 2 A dancehall dance move in which the dancer raises and waves both arms overhead… (6)
  2. 3 A discussion — especially a deep or spiritual one — a session (9)
  3. 4 The self-governing Maroon town in the Cockpit Country of St (9)
  4. 5 The light of the moon, and by extension a bright moonlit night (9)
  5. 6 A tank, drum, or built cistern (9)
  6. 8 A deep-red drink brewed from the dried calyces (6)
  7. 10 A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced… (5)
  8. 11 In, inside, into — one of the most common Patois prepositions, covering both position and motion (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Clothing & Style, Culture, Heritage & History, Dance, Party & Celebration, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, Money, Work & Business, Places & Directions, 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.

More to play

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