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A beacon from home to guide your way. It can be a lifesaver on a stormy day. What is it?
What measures out time. Until in time all is smashed to it?
I am a span of time you can always see through I am also the timepiece with the most pieces. What am I?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
With pointed fangs it sits in wait. With piercing force it doles out fate, over bloodless victims proclaiming its might. Eternally joining in a single bite.
Why was the cook arrested?