Pained by return of crazy government? (5)
I believe the answer is:
stung
'pained' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'by return of crazy government?' is the wordplay.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'return of' is a reversal indicator.
'crazy' becomes 'nuts' (I've seen this before).
'government?' becomes 'g'.
'nuts' reversed gives 'stun'.
'stun' next to 'g' is 'STUNG'.
(Other definitions for stung that I've seen before include "Punctured eg by wasp" , "Swindled (slang)" , "Attacked by, eg, a wasp" , "Taken for a ride" , "Caused sharp pain" .)