What is it

Question: This is a fruit. You cross off the first letter it is a crime. Cross of the second letter its an animal. Cross off the next two letters it is a vowel. What is it?

Question: What tastes better than it smells?

Question: What goes in the water black and comes out red?

Question: What asks but never answers?

Question: What has a face and two hands?

Question: My food and drink were left behind
by ancients from another time.
I grind my feet upon the earth
with strength come from a metal hearth.
My mind is trapped when I run free
when still, it wanders far from me.

What am I?