Story of the crooked rise of Capone? (6)
I believe the answer is:
serial
'story' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'crooked rise of capone?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'rise' is 'seri' which is located in the answer.
'capone?' could be 'al' (gangster Al Capone) and 'al' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'of the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for serial that I've seen before include "appearing at regular intervals" , "Publication in instalments" , "In a sequence" , "Programme appearing in regular instalments" , "Story made up of consecutive parts" .)