I am a fruit, but also a shape.
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 centre, I am still a word;
take away all of the middle and I am just an acronym.
What am I?
Hints for Solving the Riddle:
Hint 1: Start with the basics—think of a fruit that also shares its name with a common shape. This shape is typically symmetrical and often used in descriptions of elegant designs.
Hint 2: Focus on the phonetic clue: if you have two of these, they sound exactly the same. Consider homophones and how they might relate to the identity of this fruit.
Hint 3: Ponder a word rearrangement that could result in something illicit. What common crime could you spell out by mixing up the letters of some fruits?
Hint 4: Imagine adding this fruit to a collection or montage to transform it into another type of fruit. Think about visual or phonetic transformations.
Hint 5: Removing the first letter leaves you with a body part you use to hear. What fruit allows this play on words?
Hint 6: If you remove the last letter of this fruit, it still refers to a consumable item, though not necessarily a fruit. What remains edible or usable?
Hint 7: Dropping a part of the center still results in a meaningful word. Consider smaller, valid words that are still formed when a letter is removed from this fruit.
Hint 8: Finally, think about removing nearly all the middle letters. What common acronym emerges, possibly related to emergencies or urgent requests?
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