The Great and 'The Terrible' is a phrase used to describe the two sides of a person or situation. It is often attributed to the title of a novel by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. The crossword solutions for this phrase are IVANS (5 letters) and EPITHETS (8 letters). IVANS is a reference to the protagonist of Tolstoy's novel, Ivan Ilych Rostov. EPITHETS refers to the descriptive words or phrases used to characterize a person or thing, which are often used in literature to describe characters.