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KatyLanka@6,
Interesting question.
There are various schools of thought on capital letters. Using one where it isn’t necessary in order to deceive is perhaps ok, though it will raise eyebrows. Of course it’s much better to use the word at the beginning of the clue so as to be ambiguous. What should be avoided is removing a capital where the sense in the clue requires one. Making Harry into harry, for example, when it needs to be read as the person for the clue to work, or using a lowercase “nice” to indicate the place in France.
There are no rules of course, but I think these conventions are generally followed.

Phil10000, I concur entirely with your comments on 24a, 9a and 12a.

24a. Take a four letter word for prison, then move the single letter for runs “from” that word into the word for trouble.

Happy with most of this today, but how does ‘conductor’ help in 9A?

I have parsed 9A now….google assisted I admit.

It was that conductor’s 70th birthday last Sunday - shame the clue didn’t appear then!

Am I missing something, or does 15 not quite work?

Rogissimo I don't think it does despite the answer being onvious) because I don't thing that "No" can be both an indicator for "Good" while at the same time being an indicator for itself (if that makes any sense all!)

How about reading the hyphen as a minus sign and splitting the N and the O, so…

- N, 0 good

Agree with you both on 15a. No no good would have been more accurate but weird!
Otherwise quite straight forward today. COD was 24a for me.