Liberal hugged by a devotee everywhere (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
all over
'everywhere' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'liberal hugged by a devotee' is the wordplay.
'liberal' becomes 'l' (abbreviation).
'hugged by' is an insertion indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'devotee' becomes 'lover' ('lover' can be a synonym of 'devotee').
'a'+'lover'='alover'
'l' placed into 'alover' is 'ALL-OVER'.
(Other definitions for all over that I've seen before include "Excessively attentive" , "Everywhere (bar the shouting?)" , "Obsessed with" , "Finished" , "very characteristically" .)