Across
- 8. Blind and deaf, but overcame disabilities
- 9. Tennis player with 23 grand slams, sister to the planet tennis player
- 11. Provided water to soldiers during the American Revolution
- 15. Led the Rhode Island colony
- 18. Nurse for the Civil War soldiers
- 19. Cracked Soviet and Japanese military cryptic messages
- 20. Investigated mental hospitals undercover
- 21. Bedridden Mexican painter
- 24. The first African-American 1st Lady
- 25. First African-American singer to switch genres
Down
- 1. First female vice president
- 2. A former politician who ran for congress
- 3. Spread a virus despite being asymptomatic
- 4. Explored the country with a baby and 2 others
- 5. Singer-songwriter who negotiates her own deals
- 6. Tennis player named after a planet
- 7. Beat the records of college basketball
- 10. Her child was the first European born in the New World
- 12. Feminist and advocate for equal rights
- 13. Created a film studio with her husband
- 14. Spy for the confederacy
- 16. Temperance advocate, destroyed booze with hatchets
- 17. Built insane asylums & a monument for Civil War soldiers who died
- 22. TV hostess, greatest philantropist in US history
- 23. Tennis player who won 39 grand slam titles