Design of new arrow hitting king brought about end of conflict (7)
I believe the answer is:
artwork
'design' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'new arrow hitting king brought about end of conflict' is the wordplay.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'hitting king' becomes 'k' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'brought about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'end of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'conflict' is 't'.
'arrow' is an anagram of '[arrow]'.
'[arrow]'+'k'='arwork'
'arwork' placed around 't' is 'ARTWORK'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for artwork that I've seen before include "Illustrations in book" , "Graphics" , "Illustrative material in publication" , "Illustrations and designs for printing" , "Painting" .)