English Riddles Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The strangest creature you'll ever find: Two eyes in front and many more behind. Who am i?
  2. 5. Alive without breath,As cold as death;Never thirsty, ever drinking,All in mail never clinking.
  3. 8. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
  4. 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.
  5. 12. What is always coming but never arrives?
  6. 14. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
  7. 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.
  8. 16. What has a head and a tail, but no body?
  9. 17. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Down
  1. 1. Thirty white horses on a red hill,First they champ,Then they stamp,Then they stand still.
  2. 3. What can you catch but not throw?
  3. 4. The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack. Who am i?
  4. 6. A box without hinges, key, or lid,yet golden treasure inside is hid.
  5. 7. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
  6. 9. What has roots as nobody sees,Is taller than trees.Up, up, up it goes,And yet never grows?
  7. 10. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
  8. 13. Voiceless it cries,Wingless flutters,Toothless bites,Mouthless mutters.