Gave order to new animal lover (5)
I believe the answer is:
vegan
'animal lover' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'gave order to new' is the wordplay.
'order' is an anagram indicator.
'to new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'gave' with letters rearranged gives 'vega'.
'vega'+'n'='VEGAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vegan that I've seen before include "Person refraining from eating animal products" , "Avoiding animal products" , "Avoider of animal products" , "Strict abstainer from animal products" , "Selective consumer" .)