Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage

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Across
  1. 2. Famous film; intuitive and inexplicable faculty
  2. 5. This South Asian country has given the world the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner
  3. 6. remnant
  4. 9. Popular chili sauce
  5. 13. Root word meaning "to attach, join, harness, yoke"
  6. 14. Co-anchor of CBS Evening News
  7. 15. According to legend, this creature saved a Samoan goddess of war
  8. 18. Famous architect who designed the Louvre's glass pyramid
  9. 19. Current CEO of Microsoft
  10. 21. This Bengali polymath was the first Asian Nobel laureate
  11. 23. Film about a young Polynesian sailor's bravery in the face of numerous hardships
  12. 24. This Korean film won four Academy Awards in 2020
  13. 25. Considered by many to be the most influential martial artist of all time.
  14. 26. Spiritual capital of India; "older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them combined"
Down
  1. 1. May commemorates the first immigrant of this heritage to arrive in the US
  2. 3. AKA "The Friendly Islands"
  3. 4. The largest of its kind in the world is in India
  4. 7. Samoan-American known for wrestling and acting
  5. 8. Considered to be the world's first novel
  6. 10. Surfing was invented here
  7. 11. A child of this culture is at the center of "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
  8. 12. This refractive surgery was invented by Iranian-American Peyman
  9. 15. Structural engineer who designed the Sears Tower
  10. 16. Song for which famous Hawaiian is known
  11. 17. This inelastic scattering effect describes the change in wavelength of light that occurs when deflected by molecules
  12. 20. Chandra first described the limit of this
  13. 22. First Asian-American VP