Across
- 3. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
- 6. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
- 9. Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can't fill it up. What is it?
- 10. He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
- 11. What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
- 12. What do you serve that you can't eat?
- 14. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?
- 16. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
- 18. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
- 20. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
- 22. As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
- 25. The more you take the more you leave behind.
- 28. Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute.
- 29. What can you catch but not throw?
- 32. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
- 33. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
- 35. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
- 37. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
- 38. What has to be broken before it can be used?
Down
- 1. What goes up and never comes down?
- 2. What gets wetter the more it dries?
- 4. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
- 5. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?
- 6. I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
- 7. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
- 8. Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
- 9. I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
- 13. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
- 15. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don't want to use it?
- 17. What can go up and come down without moving?
- 19. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
- 21. It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter?
- 23. Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
- 24. The more there is, the less you see.
- 26. Why don't lobsters share?
- 27. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
- 30. What do you fill with empty hands?
- 31. You can't keep this until you have given it.
- 34. It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time. What is this object?
- 36. Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.