### Clue: Festival regularly endears resident of New Jersey? (9)
### Answer: EASTERNER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: resident of New Jersey?
 EASTER(the Christian festival) + **2nd, 4th and 6th letters of**(regularly) "endears".
Defn: A resident of the east of a region or country, an example of which/? is one in New Jersey, a state in the eastern USA.