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I am really struggling with this. I have answers for many of the clues, but hardly any fit with crossing letters.
Special instructions are that 14 solutions need a seasonal adjustment before being entered in the grid, resulting mostly in non-words.
Has anyone worked out what 'seasonal adjustment' means or how to apply it, please?

Trying not to give away too much, whenever a particular 3-letter word appears in the solution, it is replaced by its opposite (also 3 letters).

Thanks, Chris. Will plod on!

Got there in the end! Thanks again, C.

Confused - I assumed the seasonal instruction was to remove the "L"s - Noel?

Christmas is over, docrum.

Christmas has only begun! According to Church calendar

Not according to Crucible! Ring out.............

Ah! I see...I think.