Tricks female animals, impressing Director-General? (6)
I believe the answer is:
dodges
'tricks' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'female animals impressing director-general?' is the wordplay.
'female animals' becomes 'does'.
'impressing' indicates putting letters inside (impress historically meant to conscript).
'director-general?' becomes 'dg' (common abbreviation).
'does' going around 'dg' is 'DODGES'.
(Other definitions for dodges that I've seen before include "Avoids -tricks" , "ploys" , "Evades by movement" , "Moves in order to avoid" , "Eludes or evades" .)