Across
- 4. investigated how DNA and RNA are formed and which enzymes control this process
- 5. labor leader and civil rights activist
- 6. music expanded the audience for Texan-Mexican music, and contributed to a rise in Latin music popularity across the United States.
- 8. short-story writer and poet best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican American life in Chicago
- 9. physicist and the first Hispanic astronaut
- 13. American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 14. "complete baseball player"
- 15. research engineer at Ames Research Center and moved to Johnson Space Center in 1990 when she was selected as an astronaut
- 17. helped popularize salsa music in the United States
- 18. actress, dancer, and singer who accomplished the rare feat of winning the four major North American entertainment awards
- 19. first Hispanic to be elected to a full term in the US Senate and the first US Senator to be born in New Mexico
Down
- 1. wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- 2. helped to shape the concept of "world music" by his experiments with blending many styles of music from a multitude of ethnic sources
- 3. organized workers, negotiated contracts, advocated for safer working conditions including the elimination of harmful pesticides
- 7. actor, musician, and TV producer
- 10. sworn into Congress in 1993,
- 11. prizefighter, painter, and musician and preacher for an evangelist among them—and, besides studying for the priesthood, considered becoming an architect
- 12. fought for the Confederacy in numerous battles in Tennessee and Virginia, including Bull Run and Shiloh
- 16. first Hispanic woman to serve as a regular U.S. cabinet member and the first cabinet secretary with Central American descent