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• Claim something positive about king
• Formally state
• Assert/confess openly
• Be indecisive, having abandoned western state
• State, assert
• It's a very old wicket, so declare
• State backing without Virginia
• Affirm a five-nil winning start
• Lock adult up in protest
• Maintain, assert
• Be positive lock will turn after key's applied
• Formally assert
• State decisively cut head off
• Partygoer deprived of initial right to affirm
• Make statement in a part of speech cut short