Elflike creature elusively taking trips East (6)
I believe the answer is:
sprite
'elflike creature' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'elusively taking trips east' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'trips' is 'sprit' which is within the answer.
'east' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is present 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 sprite that I've seen before include "Dainty type" , "Small, playful fairy" , "Naiad" , "water pixie" , "Elf, fairy" .)