Claim - Crossword Clue, Answer and Explanation

'claim' is the definition.
(professing is a kind of claiming)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for profess that I've seen before include "Declare openly" , "Claim or declare" , "Affirm, acknowledge" , "Affirm faith in (religion)" , "State insincerely" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

'claim' is the definition.
(synonyms)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for contend that I've seen before include "Struggle; assert" , "Tend NCO (anag.)" , "Struggle in rivalry" , "Compete; deal (with)" , "Struggle (with someone)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

'claim' is the definition.
(purporting is a kind of claiming)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for purport that I've seen before include "Spirit" , "Intended meaning" , "Meaning, substance" , "Seem or claim (to be)" , "Pretend; meaning" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

'claim' is the definition.
(to allege something is to make a claim)

This is the entire clue.

(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" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Penny Press, the USA Today, The Independent, the King Feature Syndicate, the LA Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph, The Guardian, the Evening Standard and The Mirror.

'claim' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for assert that I've seen before include "Declare, profess" , "protest" , "Declare, claim" , "Aver, maintain" , "State firmly, declare as true" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Penny Press, the USA Today, The Independent, the King Feature Syndicate, the LA Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph, The Guardian, the Evening Standard and The Mirror.

'claim' is the definition.
(aver means to state or claim something)

This is the entire clue.

(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" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun, the Penny Press and the LA Times.

'claim' is the definition.
(to maintain is to continue to claim something)

This is the entire clue.

(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" .)

I've seen this clue in The Star Tribune and the Evening Standard.

'claim' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for right that I've seen before include "Properly" , "It's what you deserve" , "Accurate" , "Morally good, justifiable or acceptable" , "ideal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.

(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" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.

'claim' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for assertion that I've seen before include "Emphatic declaration" , "Claim" , "Confident declaration" , "Confident statement of fact" , "Notarises (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror and The Star Tribune.

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