Declares to be true

The answer

AVERS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVERS answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ATTESTS (2 uses in xd)
• SAYSSO (2 uses in xd)
• AFFIRMS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AVERS

Every other clue in this collection answered by AVERS, most used first.

• Declares - used 66 times, most recently in 2024
• States - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Affirms - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Maintains - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Asserts - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• States firmly - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• States with conviction - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• States confidently - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Claims - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Professes - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Says it's so - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Alleges as fact - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Declares as true - used 7 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Show to be true - PROVE, used 57 times
• True-blue - LOYAL, used 56 times
• "___ on a true story" - BASED, used 52 times
• "To ___ own self be true" - THINE, used 38 times
• Declares openly - AVOWS, used 29 times
• True - LOYAL, used 26 times

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