Related Clues:

• States firmly - really raves
• Alleges, asserts
• Expresses in words
• States without proof
• Is this how the cad claims they're dead?
• Sounds as if a certainty is what one declares this to be
• As it might come first to make it so trying, in a manner of speaking
• One claims this, as it's about a backward cleric
• Yes, it's in the ship, in a manner of speaking
• As this tries, in a manner of speaking
• One claims that the Gaels get involved about the French
• 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