| HOBBS | Slugger in Malamud's 'The Natural' |
| STEARNES | Turkey ___, slugger in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| AROD | Yankee slugger in the three-thousand-hit club, informally |
| JAVIER | ___ Baez baseball utility player who won the National League Second Baseman Silver Slugger in 2018 |
| SADAHARUOH | Record-setting slugger in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame |
| STARGELL | Pirates slugger in Cooperstown |
| MARIS | Slugger in 1961 news |
| OTT | Slugger in a stamp series, along with Mantle, Greenberg, and Campanella |
| FARMTEAMS | Sluggers in training |
| THENATURAL | Bernard Malamud's debut novel |
| DHS | Sluggers in the AL, but not the NL |
| BLUEWHALE | Growing to more than twice the length of a Tyrannosaurus rex and exhibited in skeletal form in the Natural History Museum in London, Earth's largest living animal (4,5) |
| OWEN | Comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who coined the word Dinosauria and was a key figure in the establishment of the Natural History Museum in London (4) |
| WATERHOUSE | Architect who designed the Natural History Museum in London and the private chapel at the Duke of Westminster's home at Eaton Hall in Cheshire (10) |
| NEPER | Unit used in physics to express the ratio of two quantities, equal to the natural logarithm of the ratio of the quantities (5) |
| AWAKENING | "The whole art of teaching is only the art of ... the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpo |
| CANTHI | The inner or outer corners of the eyes, formed by the natural junction of the eyelids (6) |
| BRAIN | A neural network is a computer program that operates in a manner inspired by the natural neural network in the _____ (5) |
| SCIENCE | From the Latin for "to know", a word for any branch of knowledge including the arts originally, later for the more specific study of the natural and physical world (7) |
| EELS | The Book of ___ (2020 best seller about "the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World") |
