Devious woman tempted to hold back travel permit (7)
I believe the answer is:
evasive
'devious' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'woman tempted to hold back travel permit' is the wordplay.
'woman tempted' becomes 'eve'.
'to hold' indicates putting letters inside.
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'travel permit' becomes 'visa' (visa is a type of travel permit).
'visa' reversed gives 'asiv'.
'eve' going around 'asiv' is 'EVASIVE'.
(Other definitions for evasive that I've seen before include "Prevaricatory" , "Shifty, not direct in answering" , "Equivocal, slippery" , "Shifty, hard to pin down" , "Shifty, slippery" .)