Patois Crossword

Standard · Medium · No. 60:00

Patois Crossword: Standard · Medium · No. 6

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 An Afro-Jamaican religious tradition of Central African (6)
  2. 7 To dedicate — reworked in Rastafari Iyaric so the 'dead' sound in 'dedi-cate' is replaced with 'liv' (8)
  3. 9 Girl or young woman (4)
  4. 10 A dancehall dance move in which the dancer raises and waves both arms overhead… (6)
  5. 13 A spectacle or a laughing-stock — a ridiculous display that makes a fool of someone (9)
  6. 14 The communities of Africans (7)
  7. 15 The ____ — and, by extension, the beach or seaside (3)
  8. 16 Skinny, and sickly-looking — thin, meagre, and short on health or flesh (6)

Down

  1. 2 An Afro-Jamaican spiritual tradition of healing (4)
  2. 3 A fungal skin infection that shows as a round, scaly, itchy patch with a raised ring around the edge (8)
  3. 4 A large, smooth-scaled Jamaican lizard, deeply feared in country folklore (9)
  4. 5 An underskirt or slip worn beneath a dress or skirt to line (9)
  5. 6 The prized reef fish — especially the ____ (7)
  6. 8 Unity — the word remade in Rastafari speech so it opens with the affirming 'I'… (5)
  7. 11 One of the busiest little words in Patois, doing several jobs (3)
  8. 12 The wealthier, more affluent parts of Kingston (6)

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, Culture, Heritage & History, Dance, Party & Celebration, Descriptions & Emotions, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, 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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