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Snack, a trifle? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peanuts

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'trifle?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'snack a' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for peanuts that I've seen before include "Cartoon - giving a kind of butter" , "Little money" , "Cartoon strip; tiny sum" , "Insignificant amount of money for the seeds" , "bar snack" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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