Related Clues:

• Acknowledge a set of five letters (not half)
• Own a pledge
• Firmly declare
• Declare or affirm to be true
• State definitively
• Pinkie swear, perhaps
• Declare love in a car
• State requirement for sentence being cut
• Acknowledge a victor with pained expression
• Assert as fact
• State to be the case
• Not equivocate about
• Formally declare as true
• Declare forcefully
• Wild person at party losing head, say