Related Clues:
- Says confidently
- Declares with confidence
- Says without knowing 100%
- Says with conviction
- States to be true
- States firmly - really raves
- Alleges, asserts
- Is this how the cad claims they're dead?
- Sounds as if a certainty is what one declares this to be
- One claims this, as it's about a backward cleric
- What ones pal claims, in a manner fo speaking
- The cad makes a claim like this for those that are dead
- The cad could make corpses of this, or so he claims
- After a silly start, the rest is twisted, or so one claims
- Claims, as it's about to start back for 35 across