Wild spirits unfortunately evident involving large male (9)
I believe the answer is:
devilment
'wild spirits' is the definition.
'unfortunately evident involving large male' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' indicates an anagram.
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large' becomes 'l'.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'evident' with letters rearranged gives 'devient'.
'l'+'m'='lm'
'devient' enclosing 'lm' is 'DEVILMENT'.
(Other definitions for devilment that I've seen before include "Reckless mischief" , "Frolicsome mischief" .)