Patois Crossword

Standard · Medium · No. 50:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Medium · No. 5

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 A slightly sweet, elongated fried dumpling made from flour, cornmeal, and sugar (8)
  2. 4 The porch or covered gallery running along the front or side of a Jamaican house (8)
  3. 5 A soft, pale-yellow fruit whose ripe arils are cooked as a savoury vegetable (5)
  4. 8 The fast, deejay-led genre of Jamaican music (9)
  5. 10 The Patois pronunciation of '____', with the 'th' hardened to 'd' (3)
  6. 11 The flamboyant or '____' — a spreading ornamental tree (9)
  7. 14 Allspice — the dried berry of the ____ tree (7)

Down

  1. 1 A dress — a woman's or girl's one-piece dress or gown (5)
  2. 2 To meet up with someone, make contact, or connect socially (4)
  3. 3 Chocolate — and especially 'chocolate tea' (8)
  4. 4 Annoyance, aggravation, or a source of anger — the state of being 'vex' (angry), or the thing (8)
  5. 6 An Afro-Christian folk religion of Jamaica, blending African spirituality with Christianity (7)
  6. 7 A traditional rotating savings scheme in which a group of people each pay a fixed sum (6)
  7. 9 Sharp stomach or gut pains from gas or colic — the cramping '____' (5)
  8. 12 Good, pleasing, and at peace — a state of everything being right and in harmony (4)
  9. 13 To talk or speak (4)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Animals, Plants & Nature, Body, Health & Appearance, Clothing & Style, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, Greetings & Conversation, 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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