Patois Crossword

Standard · Medium · No. 40:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Medium · No. 4

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 An inner-city community that votes solidly for one political party and is controlled (8)
  2. 7 Fraud, hustling, or illegal and dishonest dealings (9)
  3. 9 A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced… (5)
  4. 10 The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  5. 11 The prized dark-red hardwood tree (8)
  6. 14 Jamaica's traditional formal set-dance (9)
  7. 15 A ladies' man — a man very successful with women, often juggling several at once (6)

Down

  1. 1 A dancehall dance move in which the dancer raises and waves both arms overhead… (6)
  2. 2 An Afro-Jamaican Revival religion (9)
  3. 4 A man who has affairs with other men's partners (8)
  4. 5 The tall, jointed, fast-growing cane that grows in dense clumps along Jamaican rivers and roadsides (6)
  5. 6 A decorative set of teeth covers — usually gold, silver, or jewel-set (5)
  6. 7 The mother of a man's child or children, spoken of in relation to him (9)
  7. 8 The Rastafari concept of righteous living (6)
  8. 12 A drainage ____ or ditch — and, by extension, the poor inner-city neighbourhoods (5)
  9. 13 A casual, energetic greeting between friends — like 'yo!', 'hey!', or 'what's up!' (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Affection, Love & Romance, Animals, Plants & Nature, Body, Health & Appearance, Clothing & Style, Dance, Party & Celebration, Food & Drink, Greetings & Conversation, Money, Work & Business, 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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