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I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

I am a drink. I am also an alphabet? Who am I?

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

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