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Tatters. Imagine the grid in 4 separate quadrants. The clashing letters in each quadrant are connected. They do not connect with the other quadrants. You end up with 4 distinct “shapes”. These nicely link with the theme. You will be amused, I hope.

sorry, that's clumsy - the lines follow the same order making up each phrase.

Tatters, the letters connect (in four groups) following both phrases. You do not need to connect the groups though.
I'm still boiling my brain working out which phrase is entered below the puzzle. It's all a bit 'if not then else sort of Boolean logic. Is the 'theme' the puzzle title? If not, what is the puzzle 'theme'?

Oh FFS!!!!! Those four sections look so much nicer without my attempts to connect them!! Thanks a lot. All done

Granama. The misprinted letters give you a question and answer. The answer is found on the other side of 8a and is one of the phrases. So the other phrase gets written below the grid. I think.

So is the fifteenth cell in the bottom left quadrant?

Tatters, I think you must be right and the entry below the grid relates to the puzzle title. I think you've given me the required 25d (:o)
Lumen, yes.

Sorry, Lumen....no! Got a bit dyslexic there.

I got it. Bottom right.
All done.

That’s how I see it too, only one phrase is directly related to, if not quite synonymous with, the answer referenced in the title and therefore must be the one required. Kudos to Merlin for exploiting the cryptic relationship between the two phrases so cleverly.