Riddles

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Across
  1. 2. what gets wetter the more it dries?
  2. 4. an odd number that becomes even when you take one letter
  3. 8. what can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
  4. 10. What word is always spelled incorrectly?
  5. 11. the more of this there is, the less you can see
  6. 13. this has many keys but can't open a single lock
  7. 14. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Down
  1. 1. this gets bigger when more is taken away
  2. 3. Pronounced as one letter and written with three, two letters there are and two only in me. I’m double. I’m single. I’m black, blue, and gray. I’m read from both ends, but the same either way. What am I?
  3. 5. the poor have me. the rich need me. eat me and you will die
  4. 6. what has 4 eyes but can not see?
  5. 7. what can you catch but never throw?
  6. 9. It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear
  7. 12. I am a solitary word, 5 letters long. Behead me once, I mean the same. Behead me again, I am still the same.