What goes up but never comes down?

_ _ _ IE _ _
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_ _ IE _ _
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_ _ _ _ IE

Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

It has horns but can’t beep. It is like to bleat but It is not a sheep. What is it?

A girl was sitting in her hotel room when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and found that a man was standing outside. The man said, "Oh! I am really sorry, I thought this was my room." He then walked through the corridor to the elevator. The girl did not know the man. She closed her door and called security asking them to apprehend the man. What made her suspicious of that man? He might have been genuinely mistaken.

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

You need to move three matchsticks to form three squares. Can you do it?

What will you call your mother's brother's brother-in-law?

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

Can you identify if it's a murder or a suicide ?

Your job is to measure 45 minutes if you have only two cords and matches to light the cords.

1. The two cords are twisted from various materials, so their different segments can burn at different rates.
2. Each cord burns from end to end in exactly one hour.

Describe your way of measuring the 45 minutes.