Crossword Puzzle Cultural work

Clue: Cultural work

Work crews (GANGS with 5 letters)
They work in the pits (CREWS with 5 letters)
Works of Homer (EPOS with 4 letters)
Rave review of a musical work? (PRAISEFORPIECE with 14 letters)
Worked, as dough (KNEADED with 7 letters)
Chamber worker?: Abbr. (SEN with 3 letters)
Keeps from working (IDLES with 5 letters)
Blanks' workout (TAEBO with 5 letters)
Jerk's works? (SODAS with 5 letters)
Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work (AMIDSTDANDF with 11 letters)