Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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All of you like to eat me. I am a five-lettered word. Remove the first two and I turn into an infamous animal. Remove just the first and I become a heinous crime. Remove the first and the last and you can groove on me.

Can you guess who am I?

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

The day after tomorrow will be three days before Tuesday. Can you find out what is today?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A patient was diagnosed with some ailment. He was given five different tablets to take at night at an interval of 15 minutes.

How long will it take the patient to consume all the five tablets?

A Child was born in Lahore, Pakistan.

Still child is not a Pakistani citizen.why ?

10 people came into a hotel with 9 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the tenth guest to wait for a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room, there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, ..., and the ninth guest to room number 8. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the tenth guest to room number 9, still vacant.
How can everybody have his own room?

Can you divide numbers from 1 to 9 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) into two groups so that the sum of the numbers of each group is equal?

Note: 9 cannot be turned over to make it 6.