Answer:
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes, but not in decades, years, or days?
Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means "to leave", it's not heard to see why
What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does you better open up?
What kind of cup doesn't hold water?
Something we eat, and misspell as meet.
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.