Related Clues:

• Assert, affirm
• Declare a projection from cliff sound
• Maintain a shelf soundly
• Beer bottles on hold
• Make a claim without proof
• 'Where much is --d, something must be true' (Edward Gibbon)
• Claim (a person is guilty)
• Make an accusation of member being in drink
• Assert (without proof)
• Claim porter should hold the stage
• Student, for example, covered in beer, makes claim
• Say, member is drowning in beer!
• Claim a place on side of mountain, reportedly
• Hold member's parting drink
• State's wholly on edge after large number left