Related Clues:

• Says openly
• Says with a hand in the air, perhaps
• Declares with confidence
• Says with conviction
• States to be true
• States firmly - really raves
• Alleges, asserts
• Is this how the cad claims they're dead?
• 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
• 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
• Perhaps the cad so claims that they're all stiff