Answer:
What is pronounced like one letter, written with three letters. And belongs to all animals?
Used left or right, I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up, I vie for sweet success, used down, I cause men great duress.
I have five letters and people eat me. When you remove my first letter I become a crime. Remove my first two letters and I am an animal. If you remove my first and last letters I'm a form of music
It stands upright and can be quite grand. Its secret is not hidden but right at hand. What is it?
They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath. Water gives me life, but the sun brings me death.
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