Related Clues:

• In a way, professes
• Admits frankly
• Puts forth as fact
• Gives confirmation
• Insists
• Proclaims
• Lays down the law
• Gives the OK
• Owns up to
• Asserts it
• States with certainty
• Tells it like it is
• Exercises authority
• Openly declares
• Declares solemnly