Deceived daughter escaped cleverly (7)
I believe the answer is:
deluded
'deceived' is the definition.
('delude' can be a synonym of 'deceive')
'daughter escaped cleverly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'daughter' could be 'd' (genealogical abbreviation) and 'd' is present in the answer.
'escaped' could be 'eluded' (eluding is a kind of escaping) and 'eluded' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for deluded that I've seen before include "Duped or misled" , "Deceived or misled" , "hoodwinked" , "Deceived by nonsense" , "mistaken" .)