Communicated with a leftist at the Women's Institute (5)
I believe the answer is:
wired
'communicated' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'leftist at the women's institute' is the wordplay.
'leftist' becomes 'red' (red can informally mean communist).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'the women's institute' becomes 'wi'.
'red' put after 'wi' is 'WIRED'.
'with a' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wired that I've seen before include "Connected to an electricity supply" , "set up for broadcast?" , "Nervous" , "Bugged" , "Using cables; tense, edgy" .)