Possible Clues:

• Season of good will, yet I duel anyway
• Sounds like you'll get what's on the beach around Christmas
• Christmas tree will, we're told, die — possibly after very little time
• The season of Christmas
• Tie duly designed around opening to exhibition in festive period
• Christmas period
• 'By the sound of it, you will get yourself in a knot around Christmas (8)'
• Chmas season
• You heard the French diet is modified at this feast
• The Christmas season