Crooked sort evicted for nicking record (9)
I believe the answer is:
deceptive
'crooked' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'sort evicted for nicking record' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'record' could be 'ep' (abbreviation for extended play record) and 'ep' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'evicted' is 'dective' which is within the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for deceptive that I've seen is " Misleading".)