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Scoops in paper, after discovering rich sect (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

ice creams

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'rich sect' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'scoops in paper after discovering' is the wordplay.
'scoops in paper' becomes 'icecream' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' becomes 'chasing' (someone after something is chasing or pursuing it).
'discovering' means to look at the middle letters (I've seen 'discovered' mean this (dis-covered - outer letters removed)).
The centre of 'chasing' is 's'.
'icecream'+'s'='ICE-CREAMS'

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(Another definition for ice creams that I've seen is " puddings?".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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