Claim (7)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(professing is a kind of claiming)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for profess that I've seen before include "Declare openly" , "Claim or declare" , "Affirm, acknowledge" , "Affirm faith in (religion)" , "State insincerely" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(synonyms)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for contend that I've seen before include "Struggle; assert" , "Tend NCO (anag.)" , "Struggle in rivalry" , "Compete; deal (with)" , "Struggle (with someone)" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(purporting is a kind of claiming)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for purport that I've seen before include "Spirit" , "Intended meaning" , "Meaning, substance" , "Seem or claim (to be)" , "Pretend; meaning" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(to allege something is to make a claim)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for allege that I've seen before include "State as a fact without proof" , "Make a claim without proof" , "Declare without actual proof" , "Aver - maintain" , "Claim, suggest" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for assert that I've seen before include "Declare, profess" , "protest" , "Declare, claim" , "Aver, maintain" , "State firmly, declare as true" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(demanding is a kind of claiming)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for demand that I've seen before include "Request made emphatically as by right" , "Requisition" , "Insistent request" , "Madden (anag)" , "Forceful request" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(aver means to state or claim something)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for aver that I've seen before include "State decisively" , "To declare or affirm solemnly as true" , "State firmly, propound" , "State firmly - don't rave" , "State firmly, maybe rave" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(to maintain is to continue to claim something)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for maintain that I've seen before include "finance" , "Keep in good order" , "Keep in safety and protect from harm and decay" , "Take the view or keep up repairs" , "Keep going" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for right that I've seen before include "Properly" , "It's what you deserve" , "Accurate" , "Morally good, justifiable or acceptable" , "ideal" .)
(Other definitions for posit that I've seen before include "Propose" , "Put forward (a theory)" , "Put forward (as fact)" , "Dispose" , "Put forward (something) as a given" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">claim</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for assertion that I've seen before include "Emphatic declaration" , "Claim" , "Confident declaration" , "Confident statement of fact" , "Notarises (anag)" .)