General Riddles

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

A calendar year has how many seconds?
12 (2nd January, 2nd February, 2nd March.....)

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I am a 7 letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. Who am I?

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

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