Superior to me in the newspapers, one imagines (8)
I believe the answer is:
presumes
'one imagines' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'superior to me in the newspapers' is the wordplay.
'superior' becomes 'u' (U can mean upper-class, as in U and non-U speech).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'newspapers' becomes 'press' (the press is the newspaper industry).
'u'+'me'='ume'
'ume' going within 'press' is 'PRESUMES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for presumes that I've seen before include "Takes to be the case" , "... supposes" , "takes liberties" .)