Dark wicked thing (5)

I believe the answer is:

night

'dark' is the definition.
(night is a kind of dark)

'wicked thing' is the wordplay.
'wicked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'thing' with letters rearranged gives 'NIGHT'.

(Other definitions for night that I've seen before include "follow-up to 16 [TWILIGHT]" , "Saturday -- Fever (film)" , "Ignorance" , "Tennyson's "black bat"" , "Time between days" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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