Related Clues:

• 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
• As it is getting around to the cleric back there, or so it claims