Devious lady gets back work permit (7)
I believe the answer is:
evasive
'devious' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'lady gets back work permit' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'lady' could be 'eva' and 'eva' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for evasive that I've seen before include "Deliberately vague" , "Shifty, slippery" , "Shifty, equivocal" , "Shifty, not direct in answering" , "Shifty; equivocating" .)