Answer to "Mechanism" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WORKS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1983.

Mechanism crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
WORKS	33 %	5
DEVICE	33 %	6
ACTION	33 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mechanism

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• mechanics
• chemical mechanism
• machine
• clockwork
• device
• apparatus
• machinery
• mechanized
• framework
• mechanistic
• tool
• robotic

Crossword Answer definitions

WORKS noun

1. (heading) Employment.
2. (heading) Effort.
3. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
4. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
5. The staging of events to appear as real.
6. Ore before it is dressed.
7. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

WORKS verb

1. To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
2. To effect by gradual degrees.
3. To embroider with thread.
4. To set into action.
5. To cause to ferment.
6. To ferment.
7. To exhaust, by working.
8. To shape, form, or improve a material.
9. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
10. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
11. To provoke or excite; to influence.
12. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
13. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
14. To cause to work.
15. To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
16. To influence.
17. To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
18. To move in an agitated manner.
19. To behave in a certain way when handled
20. (with two objects) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
21. To hurt; to ache.

WORKS noun

1. A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
2. A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
3. (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
4. (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result WORKS

• Does what it's meant to
• "Opera," literally
• Does the job
• Does the trick
• Watch's innards
• Everything, with "the"
• Operates properly
• Operates well
• Has a job
• Is in operating condition

More clues leading to the result DEVICE

• Creative-writing technique
• Word after flotation or mnemonic
• Contrivance
• Scheme
• Gizmo
• Plot mechanism
• Figure of speech
• Instrument.
• Contrivance.
• Gadget.

More clues leading to the result ACTION

• Director's word
• Director's cry
• Soldiers see it
• "Lights, camera, ___ !"
• Chase scenes, shootouts, etc.
• Director's call
• Director's shout
• Fast-moving-film feature
• Movie director's cry
• Shout from Martin Scorsese