1 ACross Puzzles
4D
Hypatia

PLEASE READ BEFORE SOLVING:

1. Each Across clue in this grid can be solved only after an additional instruction is applied to the wordplay component. 

2. The instruction that needs to be applied to the clues can be found as the solution to 4D

3. Each half of the instruction in 4D applies to roughly half of the across clues

5. All down clues are normal cryptic clues and don't use the additional instructions

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  •  8  Oddly, I care about resistance measures (8)

  •  9  Sleep on it, choosing cover / blanket with a hole in it (6)

  • 10 Clearly shining in new form of artistry (6)

  • 11 English cats and dogs, say, are given hard names (8)

  • 12 Most courteous after the French invaded (8)

  • 13 Show and drop anti aircraft weapon (6)

  • 14 Fear and panic grip one country's border security force (11,4)

  • 18 Total recall after student gets basic test (6)

  • 20 They may be found in remote parts, meters away! (8)

  • 23 European Yogi's vault raided (8)

  • 24 Goes around the world when either partner's on business after vacation (6)

  • 25 Thus, I enter clumsily dropping small hot dish (6)

  • 26 Bored by Brit, essentially lives with sniper, one from Dublin, (8)

    • Down

  •  1  Reached outside bottom of bear's cave (6)

  •  2  Runs in to boss, about to return after unit became stronger (8)

  •  3  Typical pattern observed in lethargy / leniency (6)

  •  4  I treat alike and vote anyhow, if there's not much to choose, say (4,2,2,5,2)

  •  5  Vegetable cut by ape (5,3)

  •  6  Soldier gets two men for a song (6)

  •  7  Where you can talk, virtually all day long! (4,4)

  • 15 Primarily, Government underwriting, in old loans is very negligible (8)

  • 16 Spooner's yearning for fighting (8)

  • 17 A universal high speed limits Bahrain airport's motorway (8)

  • 19 Proposed and settled leaving fellow to get married (6)

  • 21 Chiefly insulting / ridiculing or nasty, intentionally caustic (6)

  • 22 Say, ceremony spreads altruism though some regularly drop out (6)

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