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I concur with all you say quisling, but I was assuming that the shape is the 8th (obsolete) definition and try as I might I can't see how you draw one of those with ten sides. Like I said, I'm no mathematician.

Planks, the decagon is not symmetrical. But imagine the 8th definition with the SW corner straightened out, and that would get rid of your two extra sides

Ah yes, I think my shape was better though. Thanks quisling

Is one of the nine doing double duty by being highlighted as well? It doesn't use the required definition explicitly in the BRB. Or am I missing the ninth? I currently have five across and four down examples circled.

If the nine words are examples of the defined word then which columns are they in?
Is one in each of columns 2, 3, 5 and 12 and the others are in various rows?

Candlestick, one of the nine is part of the highlighting. If you have circled five acros items and four down ones then that looks right to me.

Bananabean, some of your selections appear to be wrong. The item in column 12 (NE corner?) cannot count because it is not within the decagon. The item in column 2 could fall outside or on the boundary of the decagon, so it's best to look for its duplicate in another column

I seem to have most of this done. Just one left to find of the nine. However, I cannot, for the life of me, find the word that the definition refers to. Is it in the carol, if so which verse? Would appreciate some help please.

It's in the first verse. All your 'nine things' are in it....

Thanks Malone, it was as I first thought, although I missed the definition, having read it a dozen times. (Should have gone to Spec Savers). What held me up the most was the 5 answer to 5a, where I had N rather than C, which still makes more sense to me, so the definition for the decagon I had as 32 cells. I had to go through every answer again until I found it. Then, of course, I could expand the shape.