Answer:
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals. And hides at night?
What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.
Iām grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.