Related Clues:

• Expresses in words
• Is this how the cad claims they're dead?
• 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
• 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
• Yes, it's in a ship, in a manner of speaking
• Could be, 'e's writing them and is speaking them
• As it is getting around to the cleric back there, or so it claims
• E's the one that tries to get this, in a manner of speaking (4)
• Perhaps the cad so claims that they're all stiff