The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TINSEL
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More clues leading to the result TINSEL
- Around home let’s spread cheap decoration
- Listen afresh, it's glittering stuff
- Kind of town Hollywood is giving silent treatment
- Listen to Labour – it’s showy but worthless
- Listen out for something associated with Christmas?
- Can trade mostly worthless gaudiness
- Decorative stuff can retail with a pound off
- Show can almost be bought
- Listen out for something sparkling
- 14ac could design decoration
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The straight part
We know that "Christmas decoration" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case christmas decoration = tinsel.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TINSEL mean?
TINSEL noun- A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
- Very thin strips of a glittering, metallic material used as a decoration, and traditionally draped at Christmas time over streamers, paper chains and the branches of Christmas trees.
- Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more pretty than valuable.
- To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
- To give a false sparkle to (something).
- Glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.