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Many Thanks sudukolover, ..

Thanks to your help have filled in the grid but unhappy with parsing of 11 ac girl hiding direction for wedding venue (7) I have aretha, a girl's name but what's the rest of the clue ??

It's not ARETHA def. "wedding venue"

Light bulb moment.. duh Thank you.. now I can enjoy the emerging sunshine.. ,,

I've got ARBELA, but have no idea why it may be a wedding venue. Can anyone help or put me right? Apart from that I think I've finished but it has been a struggle this week.

The wedding venue is a place (popular with elopers).

btw the E is wrong

Many thanks Chrise. I'll have a think about 7 down now

I've finished but I'm puzzled by some of the parsing:

17A Article that's first [yep, OK] seen thematically in 8 downs
I have ANT, which could be in the theme word or literally in the theme animal! The letters are also in 8D, but not in sequence. Also, I have a plural word for 8 down, a type of [theme animal] - so why is there a double plural?

17D Second person to be [yep, OK] 18... [18D= TEA] (I have ARE, but what has that to do with 18?)

18D ... or 20, say [I have ECHIDNA], of 26 for builders? [I have MANTLE] (I have TEA for 18D)

21A 7 [I have CAST ASIDE] of 24 [I have WANTON] worried about... (I have ETA)

Apart from the answers spelling out the theme animal clockwise, I can't make any sense of these clues and would not have 'solved' them (I don't really feel I have at all).

17
Article An
That's first - T

8d Is a type of.....starting with ANT