RIDDLES

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Across
  1. 2. I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
  2. 7. I know a word of letters three, add two and less there will be.
  3. 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.
  4. 11. Use me well and I am everybody, Scratch my back and I am nobody.
  5. 12. A box without hinges, key or lid, Inside, a golden treasure is hid.
  6. 13. The more there is the less you see.
  7. 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.
  8. 16. White and thin, red within, with a nail at the end. What is it?
  9. 18. What goes around the world without leaving its corner?
  10. 21. What gets more wet as it dries?
  11. 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.
  12. 25. What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood?
Down
  1. 1. What is black and white and is red all over?
  2. 3. I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
  3. 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.
  4. 5. Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, Hard all around.
  5. 6. All about the house, with his lady he dances. Yet he always works, and never romances.
  6. 8. What has hands but cannot touch?
  7. 9. Give me food and I will live, Give me water, and I will die.
  8. 14. You hear me once, you heard me again, and then I die until I am called again.
  9. 17. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
  10. 19. The more you take away, the bigger it gets.
  11. 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?
  12. 22. What has teeth but cannot bite?
  13. 23. What has legs but cannot walk?