Head teacher shook crisps out of exam papers (7)
I believe the answer is:
scripts
'exam papers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'head teacher shook crisps out' is the wordplay.
'head' suggests taking the first letters.
'shook' is an anagram indicator.
'out' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
The first letter of 'teacher' is 't'.
'crisps' is an anagram of 'scrips'.
't' going into 'scrips' is 'SCRIPTS'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for scripts that I've seen is " Written versions, of plays say".)