Possible Clues:

• Seems she made things equal over him
• ___ out (balanced)
• One is editor, even if one has smoothed things out (6)
• It's not so odd for the editor to have done it by plane
• How she smoothed things over with him?
• Seemed not so odd the way she got to him
• If she was the first before the end, that made it level
• Level
• How she got level with him?
• Ironed