He needs a tin opener and a new suit (5)
I believe the answer is:
titus
'he' is the definition.
'a tin opener and a new suit' is the wordplay.
'opener' indicates taking the first letters.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a new' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'tin' is 't'.
'suit' anagrammed gives 'itus'.
't'+'itus'='TITUS'
'needs' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for titus that I've seen before include "identifying Philemon's neighbour" , "& 20 Mervyn Peake character" , "Rom. emperor 79 to 81AD" , "Roman emperor, son of Vespasian" , ". . . . . Andronicus, Shakespearean tragedy" .)