7  Worked out action, imprisoning French nobleman (7)

 8  Song put worker on edge (6)

10 Soup puzzle is quite some work (4)

11 See something positive after working away from the studio (2,8)

12 Pitched working title to leading director (6)

14 Support worker with banter (8)

15 Way of working disrupts a British river plant (7)

17 Writes again; mistakenly orders worktop (7)

20 Sprang up at work: upset Rod (8)

22 Summary: "get back to work!" (6)

23 Queen indoors, cutting out working (10)

24 The French, with axes, are work-shy (4)

25 Work Ron ostensibly covers for important Greek figure (6)

26 Plant official stops work (7)

 2  Evens? Possibly... not? (4)

 3  Harmony with a note repeated - or another (6)

 4  Playing lead character from overseas at London theatre (7)

 5  Expressed no feeling at birth (8)

 6  Talks about bringing up Arab found in a palace? (10)

 9  In the middle of tea, dined alone, sucking big mushroom (5)

13 Bullish, taking on unruly mob: can it be beaten? (10)

16 King Cole draws tomahawk, at the tip most sharp (8)

18 Girls confine blackbirds, but not for all to see (8)

19 Did cast perform for fans? (7)

21 Spooner reported weak/average animators (5)

22 Sadly remember rare (largely extinct) white heron (6)

24 Ransack as look-out regularly drops off (4)