| Legally qualified | 17 |
| Legally empowered | 17 |
| It precedes Baker | 17 |
| It has the same meaning if "cap" is added | 51 |
| In a position to | 16 |
| In a position (to) | 18 |
| In a position | 13 |
| How Napoleon was before Elba | 28 |
| Highly competent | 16 |
| Having the stuff | 16 |
| Having the required skills | 26 |
| Having the capacity | 19 |
| Having sufficient power | 23 |
| Having skill or strength | 24 |
| Having know-how | 15 |
| Hardly inept | 12 |
| Handy, say | 10 |
| Handling things OK | 18 |
| G.I.'s first letter | 23 |
| Functioning in all respects | 27 |
| Fully up to it | 14 |
| Follower of ready and willing | 29 |
| Fitted for | 10 |
| First word of a famous palindrome | 33 |
| First code word | 15 |
| Ept, so to speak | 16 |
| Ending with wash or wear | 24 |
| Elba reversal | 13 |
| Cutting it | 10 |
| Cut out for it | 14 |
| Competent, like a seaman | 24 |
| Communications code word for "A" | 42 |
| Can-do word | 11 |
| Blessed with skills | 19 |
| Baker-Charlie precursor | 23 |
| Baker preceder | 14 |
| Anagram for Elba | 16 |
| Anagram for bale | 16 |
| Amply skilled | 13 |
| Adjective for some seamen | 25 |
| Adjective for a seaman | 22 |
| A, in W.W. II | 13 |
| "Au fait" | 19 |
| "___ was I ere ..." | 29 |
| "___ was I ere . . . " | 32 |
| "___ to leap tall buildings..." | 41 |
| "___ to leap tall buildings in a single bound" | 56 |
| "___ to leap tall buildings ... " | 43 |
| "___ to leap tall buildings . . ." | 44 |
| ''Willing'' partner | 35 |
| ''... ___ to leap tall buildings ...'' | 54 |
| ''___ to leap tall buildings ...'' | 50 |
| ___-minded | 10 |
| ___ bodied seaman | 17 |
| More competent | 14 |
| More qualified | 14 |
| More skilled | 12 |
| More fit | 8 |
| More capable | 12 |
| Better qualified | 16 |
| More skillful | 13 |
| More adept | 10 |
| Better suited | 13 |
| Less inept | 10 |
| Comparatively competent | 23 |
| Having more skill | 17 |
| More talented | 13 |
| More fit for the task | 21 |
| Better trained | 14 |
| More up to the task | 19 |
| More proficient | 15 |
| Less error-prone | 16 |
| Less clumsy | 11 |
| Better prepared | 15 |
| Better equipped | 15 |
| More up to it | 13 |
| Less likely to make mistakes | 28 |
| Less helpless | 13 |
| Better-qualified | 16 |
| Beating in competence | 21 |
| With more skills | 16 |
| Smarter | 7 |
| More up to the job | 18 |
| More suitable for a job | 23 |
| More likely to get hired | 24 |
| More gifted | 11 |
| More apt | 8 |
| Less incompetent | 16 |
| Less bungling | 13 |
| Comparatively fit | 17 |
| Better, in a way | 16 |
| Better up to it | 15 |
| Most skillful | 13 |
| Most skilled | 12 |
| Most likely to succeed | 22 |
| Most qualified | 14 |
| Least incompetent | 17 |
| Most fit | 8 |
| Most capable | 12 |
| Best qualified | 14 |