Christmas 2024: Riddles

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Across
  1. 1. It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
  2. 6. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
  3. 7. What thrives when you feed it but dies when you water it?
  4. 8. What is always in front of you, but can’t be seen?
  5. 10. I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
  6. 11. What has many rings but no fingers?
  7. 12. What comes down but never goes up?
  8. 14. What has a head but no brain?
  9. 17. Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?
  10. 19. What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
  11. 21. What gets broken without being held?
  12. 22. What is more useful when it is broken?
  13. 24. I love to dance and twist. I shake my tail as I sail away. When I fly wingless into the sky. What am I?
  14. 25. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
  15. 27. What do you buy to eat but never consume?
  16. 30. What goes up, but never comes down?
  17. 31. Take off my skin — I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
  18. 32. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
  19. 34. What can you break without touching it?
  20. 35. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Down
  1. 2. What’s light as a feather, but can’t be held for long?
  2. 3. If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?
  3. 4. What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?
  4. 5. What gets bigger the more you take away?
  5. 8. What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
  6. 9. What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
  7. 13. What's a single-digit number with no value?
  8. 15. What’s clean when black, and dirty when white?
  9. 16. The person who makes it, has no need of it. The person who buys it, has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
  10. 17. What asks no questions, but must be answered?
  11. 18. I sometimes run, but I can’t walk. What am I?
  12. 19. Who has married many women but was never married?
  13. 20. What has a neck but no head?
  14. 23. What has hands, but cannot clap?
  15. 26. What is full of holes but still holds water?
  16. 28. What is always on its way but never arrives?
  17. 29. The more you take, the more you leave behind
  18. 32. What has branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves?
  19. 33. What can you catch but never throw?
  20. 34. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?