Possible Clues:

• Resolve to get rid of one in the most terrible form of murder?
• Cut around East End
• Pick
• Settle three-quarters of the plan at the end of the month
• Following the first of last month, resolve to get the editor back
• Proceed at a fork in the road
• River police invited in to settle the issue
• Resolve or give a judgment
• Reach a judgment
• Resolve, settle (issue)