God cheated over empty eulogies (5)
I believe the answer is:
hades
'god' is the definition.
(Hades is an example)
'cheated over empty eulogies' is the wordplay.
'cheated' becomes 'had' (to have someone can mean to trick them).
'over' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'empty' suggests removing the centre.
'eulogies' with its middle taken out is 'es'.
'had'+'es'='HADES'
(Other definitions for hades that I've seen before include "Home of the souls of the dead" , "Classic hell in the shade" , "Mythological abode of the dead" , "Hell of Greek myth" , "Greek god of the underworld" .)