Category: Foul Play?

My query relates to the established convention that ‘the general may define the specific, but not vice-versa’. Read the thoughts of Dr Clue, and have your own say,

Should we allow superfluous articles within an element of a cryptic wordplay, for instance the word ‘the’ in ‘middle of the day’ for A?

Use of agent nouns, eg ‘flower’ to indicate ‘Thames’

Use of non-capitalized words to indicated capitalized abbreviations