Crossword-Solution: SOTOL 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The night was fine and clear; outlined against the sky were the stalks of countless sotol-plants standing slim and bare, like the upright lances of an army at rest; ahead the road meandered across a mesa, covered with grama grass and black, formless blots of shrubbery.

But throughout the afternoon the only sign of man or beast that I saw was a lot of sotol plants recently uprooted, and their roots eaten by bears.

And I like _sotol_, _aguardiente_, _mescal_, _tequila_, _pulque_, and other Mexican customs!" They shouted with laughter.

And naturally he drank whenever he could get the various distillates of agave which sold in the neighboring villages as mescal, tequila and sotol.

Relations who had not seen each other for months, compadres by the scores, old friends, new acquaintances, fell on each other’s necks and slapped each other on the back while the bottle of fiery sotol or tequila circulated freely.