Teenagers vandalised houses close to Muslim settlements (10)
I believe the answer is:
agreements
'settlements' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'teenagers vandalised houses close to muslim' is the wordplay.
'vandalised' is an anagram indicator.
'houses' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'close to' says to take the final letters (the 'close' to the word).
The final letter of 'muslim' is 'm'.
'teenagers' anagrammed gives 'agreeents'.
'agreeents' going around 'm' is 'AGREEMENTS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for agreements that I've seen before include "pledges" , "contracts" , "Concerts" , "Compromises in" .)