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17a. Husband enters Sacré-Coeur and St Sulpice, say, and other places of worship
PARISH CHURCHES

I get the parse except for the st Sulpice connection.

21a. Bone set with a common purpose
PHALANX
Parse?

26a. Old people here turned in precious stones, initially
ICENI

Parse?

8d. They go out for a Latin class
EXEUNT
Parse?

26 Just a double definition, I think. A phalanx is a bone and also 'a solid body of supporters' , from Chambers , so fits '{a} set with a common purpose'.

Could 17 just be that Sacre-Coeur and Sr Sulpic are Paris Churches, churches in Paris, with an H for husband entered? Parish Churches,other places of worship.

8 D, Exeunt means 'they leave', they go out, and you'd learn this in a Latin class, lesson.

Precious stone = ice (slang for diamonds) the turn “in”

26 Is the clue definitely 'initially', not 'essentially'?

Iceni, old people. ICE is in the middle, essentially, of Precious and then NI is In reversed, 'turned in'.

That's all I can come up with - and it doesn't account for the 'stones', so could be nonsense!

Mathprof... I'd been working with that thinking too - but didn't know what the 'initially' was doing.

I think initially means that ice goes before in turned.

Thanks, Mathprofrockstar, that works - it seemed a rather fiddly clue for such a little word!

Thanks all, for the help. Cheers.