Revolutionary communist behind the gate with the heartless lady is a hospital employee (7)
I believe the answer is:
orderly
'a hospital employee' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'revolutionary communist behind the gate with the heartless lady' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary communist' becomes 'der' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'behind' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the gate' becomes 'or' (or gate is a kind of gate).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the heartless' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'lady' with its centre taken out is 'ly'.
'der' after 'or' is 'order'.
'order'+'ly'='ORDERLY'
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for orderly that I've seen before include "Officer's assistant" , "Hospital attendant - neat" , "Regular - neat" , "Well-regulated" , "Neatly arranged; hospital attendant" .)