English Riddles Crossword
Across
- 2. The strangest creature you'll ever find: Two eyes in front and many more behind. Who am i?
- 5. Alive without breath,As cold as death;Never thirsty, ever drinking,All in mail never clinking.
- 8. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
- 11. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
- 12. What is always coming but never arrives?
- 14. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
- 15. This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down.
- 16. What has a head and a tail, but no body?
- 17. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Down
- 1. Thirty white horses on a red hill,First they champ,Then they stamp,Then they stand still.
- 3. What can you catch but not throw?
- 4. The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack. Who am i?
- 6. A box without hinges, key, or lid,yet golden treasure inside is hid.
- 7. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
- 9. What has roots as nobody sees,Is taller than trees.Up, up, up it goes,And yet never grows?
- 10. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
- 13. Voiceless it cries,Wingless flutters,Toothless bites,Mouthless mutters.