Meat with chilli yankee finds fair in NY (6)
I believe the answer is:
carney
'fair in ny' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'meat with chilli yankee' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'yankee' could be 'y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'y' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'carne' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'finds' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for carney that I've seen is " Butter up".)