Possible Clues:

• Diploma material
• Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny
• __ paper: baking layer
• Merchant prince distributed quality paper
• Paper makes point about cunning fellows
• Fine writing paper shows cunning - fellows in part
• Once used for communications from normal churchmen over tea, so to speak
• Paper made from animal skin
• Paper written by dry people on time
• Seems that thirst makes one all so skinny