Crossword "Women's Day Special"
Across
- 5. Barbie's creative "mom"(11)
- 6. Have you read the diary of the young girl?(9)
- 7. Shares her name with a successful actress, she is known for being awarded the Ramanujan Prize (10)
- 11. I climbed the summit of Everest first(10)
- 12. Awarded to the brave of the soil, the gallantry medal was designed by her (16)
- 13. When the queen calls it a checkmate(12)
- 16. the first Indian to get the golden man home(12)
- 18. Not just a pretty face, she got herself a medical degree after being adjudged as the first asian to win Miss World(10)
- 19. Blind herself, she opened eyes of many as a prolific author(11)
- 20. First woman to orbit the earth(19)
- 22. Her notes inspired the ENIGMA hero(11)
- 24. The leader of world’s only all-in-one video solution(9)
- 25. a soldier and a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first “linkers”(11)
- 26. The first Indian woman in her field, she chose the noble profession to heal(16)
- 28. I fly first , I fly on my own across the atlantic ocean (13)
- 29. The mind behind the famous Mr Darcy(10)
- 30. The Lady With the Lamp(19)
Down
- 1. First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (12)
- 2. OVM Dance Academy of Chennai presented a Grand Dance Ballet on this Sivaganga Queen (12)
- 3. the first woman to be an IBM Fellow and also the first woman to win the Turing Award (12)
- 4. teamed up with Tilak, and is known for founding of Home Rule League in 1916 (11)
- 8. missile woman of India(11)
- 9. Awarded as the women of courage (12)
- 10. The dark lady of DNA(16)
- 14. an American soccer champion and activist who has won two World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal(12)
- 15. She spent 60years studying and watching the chimpanzees mimic human like behaviour(11)
- 17. the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel(9)
- 21. It was no walk in the “park” when they asked her to give up her seat in the bus(9)
- 23. A writer whose story on “weeping woman” got the movie makers inspired(13)
- 27. She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native country(10)