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Meaning of able

- Fit; adapted; suitable.
- Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
- Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
- Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.
- To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
- To vouch for.

Crossword clue for able

- AB, ... seaman
- All brilliant leading experts are competent
- Apparently Cain’s brother was gifted
- Can, is ... to
- Can’t, is ... to
- Capable
- Capable of doffing cap
- Capably and briefly 
- cleft
- Clever Scrooge no longer miserable
- Competent
- Competent enough to bale out
- Competent sailor with basic training takes on the French
- Competent, leading brewer in beer
- Equipped to go with seaman
- Falls ill
- Gifted
- Having ability
- Having the necessary opportunity to see Elba on return
- having the necessary skills
- Heard first victim was skilled
- in the know
- possessing the power to
- Proficient
- Qualified
- Ready, willing and ...
- Sickens
- Skilful
- Skilfully 
- Skilled
- Talented Bale upset
- Talented type of seaman
- Troubles upset Lisa
- Type of seaman who’s in a position to do something