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The last person took the basket with the last egg in.

Yes, well done! Finally!

Messed up in the UK means to have got it wrong. Mixing something up is to change the format. I meant that they went away from the canon/played with the format/didn't just base it on one book.

Appropriate for the UK today!

I thought they mixed it up with The Blind Banker. Although there are elements of the canon in it, I thought it was the most different-to-the-books of the 6 episodes so far.

Yes to the whisky answer, well done

Poisoned ice cubes in one glass, and none in the other is correct. There is another explanation in which both glasses have poisoned ice cubes... I know the elevator one so I'll keep quiet for a bit.

Carol, I highly recommend all of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels. I like them as much as ACD's Sherlock Holmes stories, and that's saying something! Start with The Riddle of the Third Mile

Nobody's got the first one yet but Carol clearly knows the answer and is giving good advice. For number 3, poison is right but it's not in the bottle...

Braces in the UK are both teeth torturing devices and straps to hold trousers up. Suspenders in the UK are clips that affix to a suspender belt, used for holding up stockings. A garter is a circular elasticated piece of lace which goes around the leg, also to hold stockings up, or over tights, and is usually worn on a woman's wedding day or when 'dressing up' for sexual antics. The Order of the Garter is named after the same garter actually ! "Various legends account for the origin of the Order. The most popular legend involves the "Countess of Salisbury" (either Edward's future daughter-in-law Joan of Kent or her former mother-in-law, Catherine Montacute, Countess of Salisbury). While she was dancing at a court ball at Calais, her garter is said to have slipped from her leg. When the surrounding courtiers sniggered, the king picked it up and returned it to her, exclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense," ("Shamed be the person who thinks evil of it."), the phrase that has become the motto of the Order" says wikipedia.

Nope I also agree with what she weighs in the spoiler.

Yeah our Thorin is from Leicester and yes, you pronounce it Lester. It's famous for Red Leicester cheese, and Gok Wan If both were my husband I'd be over the moon (and perhaps in trouble with the law...)

Yeah they had the same quantity of whisky. There are two possible explanations, both of which I'd accept. The answer lies above...somewhere

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/191-3176854-2540305?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mark+gatiss Amazon is your friend.

Similar to how Derren Brown's one does (read his books) but when I'm searching it's more like how you'd organise a filing cabinet with crosslinks than Sherlock's swiping method.