Related Clues:

• Having considerable skill
• The Spanish scholar brought up showing talent
• Clever group of diners disregarding time
• Fit for a task
• Qualified characters from parables
• Didn't leave blind date in fit
• Qualified and retired to small island
• With the means and abilities
• Like up-to-snuff rocker
• Moralistic tale has no introduction - is that clever?
• ... was I ere I saw Elba (palindrome)
• Ready and qualified
• Qualified to throw off bowler hat
• Beatles "I'll be better, doc, as soon as I am ___"
• Unlike a rank amateur