“That ___ how any of this works!” Crossword Clue

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“That ___ how any of this works!” Crossword Answer

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WORKS (noun)
1. the internal mechanism of a device
2. buildings for carrying on industrial labor

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Across

1. Some Second World War noncombatants, for short

6. Vincent ___ (John Travolta’s “Pulp Fiction” role)

10. Org. that has a train station at O’Hare

13. Authorizes

15. Miranda July novel that the Times called “the talk of every group text—at least every group text composed of women over 40” (June, 2024)

17. Swiped

18. High-society coterie

19. “New York Trilogy” author whom J. M. Coetzee described as a “real workhorse à la Balzac, yet a worldwide celebrity too” upon his death in April, 2024

21. Store whose blue-and-yellow logo echoes the Swedish flag

22. Hence

23. '. . . and the ___ is history!'

25. Opens wide

28. Parts of apts.

30. Sarah Manguso novel whose protagonist “floated face down in housewifery” (July, 2024)

34. Hollinghurst whose novel “Our Evenings” follows a Burmese British actor from the sixties through Brexit (October, 2024)

35. Moonstone, e.g.

36. What a furious person may blow

37. G.P.S. option: Abbr.

38. Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, whom Hernan Diaz praised for her “unique ear for the rumors of history” (October, 2024)

40. __ ray

41. River visible from St. Paul’s Cathedral

43. Ohio State : Big Ten :: Duke : ___

44. Bust

45. “My First Book” author Levy (May, 2024)

46. Sch. whose in-state rivalry game with Utah is called the Holy War

47. Forgiveness

48. Like Yorick, per a Hamlet soliloquy

50. Barrel of laughs

52. Some brewery offerings, briefly

55. Literary organization that cancelled its prize ceremony amid protests of its response to the war in Gaza (April, 2024)

60. Long purchase from a boulangerie

62. “My advice is always . . .”

63. Posthumous Michael Crichton best-seller completed by James Patterson (June, 2024)

64. Autobiographical novel by Édouard Louis that begins with the intention “to fix the past in writing” (March, 2024)

65. Throat Coat or Sleepytime, e.g.

66. Jayne ___ Phillips, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “Night Watch” (May, 2024)

67. Make tweaks to

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1. Striped stinger

2. Skiing destination whose name is Spanish for “high”

3. Felipe, Matty, Jesús, or Moisés of the M.L.B.

4. Hoover whose book “It Ends With Us” sold more than eight hundred thousand copies in the month after the August, 2024, release of its film adaptation

5. Cusses

6. Prodigious

7. Glue brand with a bull mascot

8. Harsh light

9. Second-largest continent: Abbr.

10. Rachel whose novel “Parade” features a procession of visual artists, all referred to by the initial “G“ (June, 2024)

11. Betty Smith’s “A ___ Grows in Brooklyn”

12. Hound created by Dashiell Hammett

14. Tight-fitting

16. Inflammation of the ear

20. Philosopher Kierkegaard

24. Waste from a steel mill

25. Greenwell whose novel “Small Rain” was called “an exquisite addition to the literature of illness” in The Yale Review (September, 2024)

26. However briefly?

27. Expression of praise

29. “Sure, sweetie”

31. Kaveh whose novel “Martyr!” follows an Iranian American writer grappling with the meaning of death (January, 2024)

32. Remembrance of things past?

33. Pore over a textbook, say

35. Expense for some commuters

36. Health-supply chain with the slogan “Live Well”

38. Knight in shining armor

39. Honda's luxury division

42. Cleans, as a spill

44. Possible result of a hung jury

46. Surrealist André who wrote, “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all”

47. Turn-of-the-millennium TV title role for Brandy

49. Join voluntarily

51. Apple début of 1998

52. Yeah sure

53. Cut back

54. ___ fresca (type of fruity drink)

56. Leakes of “Real Housewives” fame

58. Coop up

59. Yesterday, in the Yucatán

61. “When are you getting here?,” in texts

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