Cryptic allusion aligned with evil heart?! (10)
I believe the answer is:
villainous
'cryptic allusion aligned with evil heart?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'aligned with evil heart?' is the wordplay.
'aligned' becomes 'llainous' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'heart?' indicates the central letters (I've seen 'heart of' mean this).
The middle of 'evil' is 'vi'.
'llainous' after 'vi' is 'VILLAINOUS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for villainous that I've seen before include "really bad" , "criminal" , "very unpleasant" , "dramatically bad" , "Nasty" .)