Position on all sides today (5)
I believe the answer is:
place
'position' is the definition.
(I know that position can be written as place)
'all sides today' is the wordplay.
'all' becomes 'pla' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sides' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (I've seen 'sides of' mean this (only the letters on the sides remain)).
'today' becomes 'christmas eve' (I've seen this before).
'christmaseve' with its middle taken out is 'ce'.
'pla'+'ce'='PLACE'
'on' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for place that I've seen before include "square?" , "Put in - winning position" , "Situation" , "Site" , "Locus" .)