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Nice one thanks.... didn't realise IMAGINE was the plural of IMAGO. Interesting article linked to on GLASS HARP.
Cheers

5d. Good try, Morse!
ENDEAVOUR

20d. Big cat gives us shock, catching fever out east
JAGUAR

2d. Male or female writer causing upset to the cloth
ELIOT

Parses for the above please.

Inspector Morse's first name was Endeavour, but it seems a bit loose for "good try".
JAR with AGU(e) (fever) inside
T S or George ELIOT (who was female); TOILE (material) backwards

Brilliant, cheers.

5d. Botanists initial fuss over this plant
POT-HERB

11a. Grubby collaborationist imprisoning Resistance
LARVAL

3d. Leave nothing undisturbed in one of the British isles
ROCKALL

6d. War-god's succeeded, having brought in divine skill
ADDRESS

Parses for the above please.

5d. POTHER is fuss, over B

5d - POTHER (Fuss) + B(otanists)

11a - (Pierre) LAVAL (executed for 'collaboration' with Germany) around R(esistance)

3d - ROCKALL is an uninhabited/'nothing undisturbed' British island.

6d - ARES (War god) around DD doctor of divinity/'divine skill' + S(ucceeded) - not sure of the definition though?

..... Chambers gives one meaning of "Address" as "adroitness" so the definition is SKILL