| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| AFFIRM | Avow | |
| AVOWED | Of Avow | |
| AVOWING | Of Avow | |
| PROTEST | To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow. | |
| DECLARE | To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false. | |
| PROFESS | To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. | |
| ACKNOWLEDGE | To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed. | |
| RECOGNIZE | To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul. | |