Possible Clues:

• Beer cans beginning to bother expert
• As capable as a mariner
• If there was a lion after the gang, that's what it would make them
• Scoop has leading couple turning up to it
• Handling things OK
• Highly competent
• Competent, can do
• They say he was murdered, though fit
• Fit, though below par in the story
• Fit relation, if 19 down