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The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found. Yet I am undone, if there's no light around
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains.
Why was the cook arrested?