center of attention Riddles

I can be clogged, and I can break. I can be given but also kept. I can be crushed or be made whole. What am I?

With thieves, I consort, With the vilest, in short, I’m quite at ease in depravity; Yet all divines use me, And savants can’t lose me, For I am the center of gravity. Who am I?

Every dawn begins with me At dusk I’ll be the first you see And daybreak couldn’t come without What midday centers all about Daises grow from me, I’m told And when I come, I end all cold But in the sun I won’t be found Yet still, each day I’ll be around.

A Japanese boat was stuck in water because of the storm, and after the storm, the captain was found dead. The engineer was busy fixing the signals, the cook was managing the wine barrels, the wife went to the room, and the maid was fixing the upside-down turned flag. Who killed the captain?

I am a fruit. If you had two of me, I would sound just the same. If you rearrange my letters, it could be a crime. Add me to a montage and I can become a different fruit. Remove my head and you can still listen; take away the end and I can still be eaten. Without a piece of the center, I am still a word; take away all of the middle and I am just an acronym. What am I?

There are five houses in a row. Each house is painted a different color and has a person of a different nationality living in it. Each person drinks a different beverage, smokes a different type of cigar, and owns a different animal as a pet. Using these 15 clues, which person owns the pet fish? The Brit lives in the red house. The Swede has a pet dog. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is directly to the left of the white house. The person in the green house drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall has a pet bird. The person in the yellow house smokes Dunhill cigars. The person in the center house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The person who smokes Blends lives next to the person with the pet cat. The person with the pet horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill. The person who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The person who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.