The Guardian - Quiptic crossword No 1,204 - Dec 12 2022

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American stops a tense period only with difficulty ATASTRETCH
Ask for quiet work in retail outlet SHOP
Co-ordinates in order to get baubles and tinsel? DECORATIONS
Enthusiast of a crazy sort for seasonal food accessories? NUTCRACKERS
Errand best put off for those serving drinks BARTENDERS
Fancy item lost close to store is evergreen at Christmas MISTLETOE
From the East some man, a titled figure of great importance TITAN
Go when given licence to acquire northern flavoured sweet PEPPERMINT
Hasten with throng avoiding cold RUSH
Illegally enter resort with sun twice after three in Sicily? TRESPASS
Improve getting two directions by luck, first off ENHANCE
In a merry state, saw scope to include new festive scene SNOWSCAPE
Jointly founded centre to host hundred on uncertain date COCREATED
Last of police force accepting small measure as feature of the online world? ECOMMERCE
Look around edges of thicket for a glove MITTEN
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Note group having to adjust again RESET
Observing number given money? Good NOTING
One giving instruction thus regularly rejected rubbish TUTOR
Opinion from left-wingers in straitened times almost never carefully examined STANCE
Proposal put in limp language PLAN
Put back a receptacle in side feature of a hotel room? MINIBAR
Range for picking up others? EARSHOT
Sets idly disposed are given a distinctive designation? STYLISED
Solitary old liberal found in US city ONLY
Sound of tranquillity in musical work PIECE
Trouble with argument about entry to hectic airport HEATHROW
Was first around Middle East city, bearing a lot of stuff? LADENED
Where one might see students with a learner of a casual sort INFORMAL
Women put in ground with draw to entice mass in December? WINTERTIME
Word from Paris now devised for a style of music MOTOWN