Cub leader is dishonest about working with leader of Scouts (7)
I believe the answer is:
lioness
'cub leader' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'is dishonest about working with leader of scouts' is the wordplay.
'is dishonest' becomes 'lies' (to lie is to be dishonest).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'working' becomes 'on' (on can mean working or activated).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'leader of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'scouts' is 's'.
'lies' enclosing 'on' is 'liones'.
'liones'+'s'='LIONESS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lioness that I've seen before include "predatory female'" , "Female pride member" , "Fierce female feline" , "Queen of beasts?" , "Big beast's mate" .)