Across
- 2. I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
- 7. I know a word of letters three, add two and less there will be.
- 10. My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe.
- 11. Use me well and I am everybody, Scratch my back and I am nobody.
- 12. A box without hinges, key or lid, Inside, a golden treasure is hid.
- 13. The more there is the less you see.
- 15. I have legs but not walk, a strong back but work not, two good arms but reach not, a seat but sit and tarry not.
- 16. White and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What is it?
- 18. What goes around the world without leaving its corner?
- 21. What gets more wet as it dries?
- 24. I saw an unusual book: The foreword comes after the epilogue; The end is in the first half of the book; The index comes before the introduction. Name the book.
- 25. What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood?
Down
- 1. What is black and white and is red all over?
- 3. I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
- 4. The man who invented it, doesn't want it. The man who bought it, doesn't need it. The man who needs it, doesn't know it.
- 5. Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, Hard all around.
- 6. All about the house, with his lady he dances. Yet he always works, and never romances.
- 8. What has hands but cannot touch?
- 9. Give me food and I will live, Give me water, and I will die.
- 14. You hear me once, you heard me again, and then I die until I am called again.
- 17. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
- 19. The more you take away, the bigger it gets.
- 20. It can be said: To be gold is to be good; To be stone is to be nothing; To be glass is to be fragile; To be cold is to be cruel; Unmetaphored, what am I?
- 22. What has teeth but cannot bite?
- 23. What has legs but cannot walk?