This year's holiday event puzzle, written for duckmedic. No knowledge about duckmedic is necessary to solve. Minor knowledge about ducks and medics may be helpful. You can verify the final answer here.
So one day juff was like, do you want to make a puzzle with me and Saroota and I was like sure. And then we made this. Why are you still reading this? Go click on their links and solve their puzzles.
My previous puzzles weren't rotationally symmetric, so I made extra sure this one was. For the optimal experience, you should solve it on a non-winter day, but if it happens to be a winter day, that's fine too.
My first cryptic! It was written for a holiday event. I was wondering how big to make it and thought... "this seems fine". (Narrator: "It wasn't fine").