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Festival fare, snappy Chelsea sweater? (3,5,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hot cross bun

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'festival fare' is the definition.
'hot cross bun' can be an answer for 'fare' (hot cross bun is a kind of food). I'm not sure about the 'festival' bit.

'snappy chelsea sweater?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'snappy' could be 'cross' (both can mean bad-tempered) and 'cross' is located in the answer.
'chelsea' could be 'bun' (Chelsea bun is an example) and 'bun' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'hot' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for hot cross bun that I've seen before include "Item of seasonal bakery" , "Symbolic food item" , "Traditional Good Friday fare" , "Food for Good Friday" , "Teacake-like baked confection" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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