Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage

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