She has a broken heel, by the way (5)
I believe the answer is:
helen
'she' is the definition.
'a broken heel by the way' is the wordplay.
'a broken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the way' becomes 'n' (Compass direction - North).
'heel' with letters rearranged gives 'hele'.
'hele'+'n'='HELEN'
'has' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for helen that I've seen before include "beautiful woman" , "the Parisian woman?" , "femme fatale" , "Trojan war beauty" , "legendary Greek figure" .)