The phrase "a clever head" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is intelligent or quick-witted, often in contexts discussing problem-solving or creativity.
Example: "In our brainstorming session, Sarah really stood out as a person with a clever head, coming up with innovative solutions to our challenges."
Alternatives: "a sharp mind" or "an intelligent thinker".
But he was beaten just before half-time when Defoe stole in to head home a clever pass from Holtby.
With Modric back on his feet, Assou-Ekotto found Lennon at the back post with a clever pass but the winger headed wide.
At Reykjavik, when Mr Spassky was advised between games by 35 Russian grand masters, Mr Fischer had a notebook and his own long, lugubrious, clever head.
An incidental character in "Him With His Foot in His Mouth" appears, does his brief turn and then vanishes, leaving behind an unforgettable impression: "He was a huge man dressed in velvet dinner clothes, a copious costume, Kelly green in color, upon which his large, pale, clever head seemed to have been deposited by a boom".
Last week, Dwyer gave a magnificent ride to a magnificent animal: the giant chestnut Persian Punch, who won his second Goodwood Cup by a clever short head.
The story of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII, ended in May 1536, when the master executioner of Calais — sent for specially, and said to be an adept in his art — separated her clever head from her seductive body with one clean stroke of his sword.
And he's up there all alone in his own clever head.
In "The Accidental," a mysterious stranger, Amber, who has appeared in the holiday house out of nowhere, raps her knuckle on twelve-year-old Astrid Smart's clever head, and asks, "Anybody in?" The impact is meaningful.
Plenty more tin ears and sharp tongues belong to bigger heads higher up in the administration.Inside the clever head of Donald ("stuff happens") Rumsfeld, America's defence secretary, for example, wags a tongue that may on its own be responsible for having needlessly alienated more former friends of the United States than any other instrument since the invention of the B-52 bomber.
(In curious bitter retrospect, her ex-fiancé confided to his journal, "She did not love my well-formed nose, nor my fine eyes, nor my small feet — nor my clever head — she just loved me, and yet she did not understand me").
