- ABLE
- Adept
- A, in code
- Competent
- Confident
- Having the needed resources
- Qualified
- Ready and willing's companion
- Talented
- Up to the job
- Up to the task
- Capable of making a BALE?
- Having the wherewithal
- Self-assured
- Willing's follower?
- Up to snuff
- Ready and willing's partner
- Willing partner?
- Fit
- Effective
- Up to it
- -
- Skillful
- Can-do
- Fit for duty
- More than competent
- On the ball
- Ready and willing
- Totally proficient
- Accomplished
- Skilled
- Having the skill
- Masterful
- Displaying talent
- Up to
- Fit for the task
- With the wherewithal
- Having the power
- Good enough
- Cut out
- Equipped
- Like hirees, you'd hope
- Up to a task
- Ready and willing partner?
- Having the necessary skill
- Old phonetic-alphabet starter
- Fully qualified
- Having the means
- Fit for the job
- Proficient
- Apt
- One that's well-put together on the farm?
- Free from any constraints
- Like enlistees, one would hope
- Crack, to say the least
- Good to perform
- Well enough, say
- Empowered
- Equal to the task
- Fit to perform the task
- Possessing power
- Gifted with aptitude
- Having the know-how
- Ready and willing companion?
- Type of seaman
- ___ to leap tall buildings...
- Having what it takes
- Up to speed
- Having the right stuff
- Sufficiently skilled
- Having the necessary know-how
- ___-bodied
- With the power
- Adroit
- Having skills
- Like some seamen
- Not inept
- Ready, willing, and ___
- Adequately skilled
- Willing follower?
- Having sufficient skill
- Sufficiently talented
- Ready's partner
- Sure-handed
- Up to the challenge
- Well-qualified
- Cutting the mustard
- Fully functional
- Not incompetent
- Precursor of Baker and Charlie
- Hardly helpless
- Like Napoleon before 64-Across?
- Having all necessary skills
- Up for the challenge
- Deft
- Seaman type
- Likely to
- Hale and hardy
- Adjective for a seaman
- Kind of seaman
- Up to scratch
- Worthy
- ___ -bodied seaman
- Handy
- Trained
- Like most seamen
- Having the required skills
- Possessed of the requisite skills
- Efficient
- One-time pal of Baker and Charlie?
- Having the knack
- Napoleon, before seeing Elba?
- Partner of willing
- Blessed with skills
- Good at one's job
- Not all thumbs
- Handy, say
- Seaman descriptor
- Willing cohort?
- Au fait
- Having the skills
- Not just ready and willing
- __-bodied
- Ready, willing and __
- Blessed with the necessary skills
- Start of a classic palindrome
- Hardly inept
- An end to reason?
- Well-equipped (to)
- Up to perform
- Having skill
- Radioman's "A"
- Baker's colleague
- Fully fit
- __-bodied seaman
- Highly skilled
- Showing talent
- First word in a radio alphabet
- __-bodied (physically fit)
- Talented enough
- In a position (to)
- Baker preceder
- Handling things OK
- Equal to it
- Fully up to it
- Having the capacity
- OK (to)
- Suitably qualified
- Fit to serve
- Well-practiced
- Having the resources
- Resourceful
- Antonym of "ineffective"
- Dexterous
- Equal to a task
- Well-equipped
- Ending for comfort or credit
- Equipped with the skill
- Fully equipped
- Well-skilled
- With the necessary skills
- Far from feckless
- Fit for a task
- Fit to do it
- Having the skill for a task
- Properly fit
- Communications code word for "A"
- Partner of ready and willing
- ___ to leap tall buildings in a single bound
- ___ was I ere ...
- Suit tail?
- Showing skill
- Start of a palindrome whose center word is "ere"
- Ept, so to speak
- Capable.
- Thor ___, Air Force missile.
- Clever.
- Having power.
- Having marked intellectual qualifications.
- Having the talent.
- Highly effective.
- Companion of "ready” and "willing.”
- Having power to act.
- Original Army code word for "A."
- Possessed of know how.
- Qualifier.
- Ready to advance.
- Well-versed.
- ___ seaman.
- 1st word of alphabet code.
- Sound of limb.
- Historic monkey.
- Polite adjective for a Senator.
- Seaworthy, nautically.
- Space traveler.
- ___, Baker, Charlie, etc.
- Baker's companion.
- Baker's partner.
- Baker's predecessor.
- One of the space monkeys
- Adjective beloved by candidates.
- Code word for "a."
- Relative of Baker.
- Space monkey.
- Suffix with eat or drink.
- See 27 Down.
- Equal to.
- Fitted.
- Partner of ready.
- Suffix with adapt or port.
- Cousin of willing.
- First word of a palindrome.
- Grade of seaman.
- One of an eager trio.
- Willing's companion.
- One of Charlie's companions
- Kind of seamen
- Gifted
- ___, baker, charlie
- Palindrome start
- Having know-how
- How Napoleon was before Elba
- Start of a palindrome
- Napoleon, before Elba
- Palindrome starter
- Suffix with drink, sink and think
- Senator's adjective for a colleague
- Anagram for bale
- Ending with wash or wear
- Simian space traveler: 1959
- Writing pad
- Habile
- Start of a well-known palindrome
- Having skill or strength
- Suffix with pay or tax
- This precedes Baker
- This trails ready and willing
- Anagram for Elba
- Can-do word
- Follower of ready and willing
- One of a famous trio
- Start of a famous palindrome
- A, in W.W. II
- Dextrous
- G.I.'s first letter
- Fitted for
- Homophone for 18 Down
- Thor ___, U.S. rocket
- Willing pursuer
- Doughty
- Palindrome opener
- Willing's partner
- Baker-Charlie precursor
- Part of A.B.
- Elba reversal
- Adjective for some seamen
- It precedes Baker
- Sal's last name?
- First code word
- Fit to be tried
- Port attachment
- Word before Baker
- Having the stuff
- Practiced
- Permitted
- Functioning in all respects
- Seaman's description
- Not impotent
- Strong of body and mind
- In a position to help
- Highly adroit
- Good enough to 2-Down
- Experienced
- Well-suited
- Word that keeps the same meaning if "cap-" is added at the front
- See 93-Across
- Cut out for it
- Like Napoleon, before Elba?
- ___-minded
- Cutting it
- Hacking it
- It becomes its own synonym when "cap" is added in front
- Pub vessel
- Like most seamen, supposedly
- Beginning of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
- Cutting it / Mediterranean island
- Opposite of inept
- Meeting all the job requirements
- Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective
- Ready to perform
- Amply skilled
- Accomplished musician
- Petra "Ready, Willing and ___"
- Goes w/Prince's "Willing"
- ___ Archer 83 (Cold War military exercise that almost made it a hot war)
- Legally qualified
- Expert
- With all the tools
- Equipped (to)
- First word of a classic palindrome
- Highly competent
- _____ to leap tall buildings ...
- Having the necessary power
- Off the injured list
- Legally empowered
- First word of a famous palindrome
- Part of a ready trio
- Ready trio member
- Up for the job
- Ending for "culp-" or "palp-"
- Having sufficient power
- Competent, like a seaman
- Possessing the know-how
- It has the same meaning if "cap" is added
- Fit to perform
- Competent and skilled
- Equipped and trained for the job
- Ready and qualified
- With a can-do attitude
- With the ability
- With the means and abilities
- With the right skills and attitude
- ___-bodied (strong)
- With the required skill
- With the skills
- Not just willing
- Willing and ___
- ___-bodied privilege
- Up to something?
- Skilled enough
- Up for the task
- Far from incompetent
- Ending for pass- or port-
- Ingenious
- Napoleon's palindromic word
- Willing companion
- In good condition
- Start of a popular palindrome
- Some seamen, with bodied
- It precedes baker, charlie
- Start of WWII alphabet
- Fit to cut the mustard
- Start of a famed palindrome
- ___-bodied (fit for the armed forces)
- Quite capable
- Having the aptitude
- Letter before Baker
- Not at all 48-Down
- Unlike a rank amateur
- Far from inept
- Skilled, as a seaman
- Skillful enough
- Having the goods
- ___ was I ere I saw Elba
- Suffix for "binge" or "dance," nowadays
- Surname of Sable and Mabel in "Animal Crossing"
- Ending for "agree" or "account"
- Having the capability
- Suffix for "agree" or "account"
- Suffix for "fashion" or "dance"
- I'm not ___ to come to the phone right now . . .
- Baker's associate?
- Bill attachment?
- Highly talented
- Classic palindrome start
- Equipped for the job
- Possessing the power
- Possessing the necessary skills
- Ready for work
- In a position
- Ready for a tough task
- More than willing
- Having the proper skill set
- Baker predecessor
- Having the requisite skill
- Qualified for the job
- Suited to the task