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Festival wind? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

easterly

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'festival wind?' is the definition.
'easterly' can be an answer for 'wind?' (easterly is a kind of wind). I am not certain of the 'festival' bit.

'festival wind?' is the wordplay.
'festival' becomes 'easter' (Christian festival).
'wind?' becomes 'ly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'easter'+'ly'='EASTERLY'

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(Other definitions for easterly that I've seen before include "A wind blowing towards the west" , "Year's let (anag) - direction of 15" , "Of wind, blowing from direction of rising sun" , "The sort of wind that brings cold air to this country" , "Invariably cold wind" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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