| hint | Character |
| englishman who had a wife called Jane | |
| taken up in the hurricane | |
| died in a supermarket | |
| her daughters are called Lucy and Lydia | |
| crazy lady in the supermarket | |
| these two are brothers | |
| kept her money in a teddy bear | |
| steals | |
| wrote a blackmailing letter | |
| taken back to canada | |
| started a fire | |
| his mother was electrocuted | |
| suspected paedophile | |
| has a son called MJ | |
| the doctor who was pushed off a bridge | |
| nephew of the flirt | |
| was killed by the Pharmacist | |
| went to jail, his wife died | |
| lived on the street | |
| cut off her own thumb | |
| was taken in by the solis family | |
| has the same name as her grandmother | |
| she disappeared and turned up on Wisteria Lane | |
| worked for the red-head | |
| published a cookbook | |
| played the piano | |
| gay man with an ugly fountain | |