Fun theme even if it is a bit niche! It does help that Nvidia's two upcoming GPU architectures will be named after Hopper and Lovelace, which kept those names fresh in my head.
___ science, field once substantially contributed to by women, and hopefully much more in the near future too!
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___ science, field once substantially contributed to by women, and hopefully much more in the near future too!
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Times for a certain woodwind to shine, such as in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
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First to design a compiler for a programming language, leading to the creation of COBOL, she also popularized the term "debugging" when she and her crew found an actual bug stuck in a switch
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Jessica Parker who acted in Sex and the City
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Snaky and slippery
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What FOX doesn't report, according to their lawyers' argument in court
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Pub beverage
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Graphic designer who designed the interface and typefaces for the Apple Macintosh and Windows 3.0, revolutionizing user interfaces (she now works at Niantic Labs, neat!)
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Word seen with a meme with Bugs Bunny and a hammer-and-sickle
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Mary-Kate Olsen, to Ashley Olsen
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Only Disney princess who is force-sensitive, probably
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Olivia, Emma, and Amelia are the most popular ones for girls recently
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Regarded as the first ever programmer, she designed the first algorithm to be executed on the Analytical Engine; the Department of Defense named a programming language after her
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Like nuts and bolts, shape-wise
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In a time when 1A was a career dominated by women, the ___-hour was a unit of work equivalent to a thousand workers working for an hour
Down
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Parts of a machine, literally and figuratively
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Return of the ___ Dinn, adventure-puzzle video game
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"can i haz ___ pls?"
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They're nuts!
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"When Should I ___ or Ice for Pain?" (title of a WebMD article I found)
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Homer's catchphrase on Les Simpson (it's almost the same)
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Rating system used by FIDE, in which Hou Yifan has the highest rating for women at 2650
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Cowgirl's gear
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Long weapon
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French pronoun relevant to the theme
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Possible grain for 19A
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Compass point with two rare letters for a crossword
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Philosophy concept defined as an infant's mental image of its experience of the surface of its body (whew)
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Went to Judge Judy, say
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Charles Dickens's ___ Heep
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___ 1A, e.g. the Antikythera mechanism
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Greeting in Lisbon
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South Sudanese model Wek who was the first African to appear on the cover of 12D
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Start of a cure, at a salon
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Green vehicle, in brief
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Action that she does by the seashore
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With "Clean," product advertised by Billy Mays
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Abbr. seen in math and programming to mean a quantity or an object