General Riddles

I am an eight letter standard word used by almost everybody. If you take away two alphabets from me I will make a logical sequence. Who am I?
STANDARD

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

A slice of cake costs $3 if it is cut into two pieces. How much will it cost if it is cut into seven pieces?
$3. As the entire slice costs $3, it doesn't matter how many pieces it is cut into.

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

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