Famous Hispanic Figures

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Across
  1. 5. Led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
  2. 12. Mexican muralist
  3. 13. Puerto Rican baseball star & humanitarian
  4. 14. Mexican painter, famous for self-portraits
  5. 16. First European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas
  6. 17. Argentine soccer superstar
  7. 19. Guatemalan activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
  8. 20. First Latina U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  9. 21. Chilean poet, Nobel Prize in Literature
Down
  1. 1. Franciscan missionary who founded missions in California
  2. 2. Conqueror of the Inca Empire in Peru
  3. 3. First person to circumnavigate the globe after Magellan’s death
  4. 4. Puerto Rican-American playwright (Hamilton)
  5. 6. First Hispanic woman in space
  6. 7. Archbishop who spoke out against injustice, assassinated during Mass, canonized in 2018
  7. 8. South American independence leader (El Libertador)
  8. 9. Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
  9. 10. Librarian who defined 90,000 Spanish words
  10. 11. Labor leader who said “Sí, se puede”
  11. 15. Cuban “Queen of Salsa” singer
  12. 18. Colombian singer and philanthropist