Answer:
Five men were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
When set loose I fly away. Never so cursed as when I go astray.
The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.
My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.