well-known pieces

(a)  

ballet company

(a)  

go down

(a)  

amateur 

(a)  

electronic music

(a)  

cookery

(a)  

carpentry

(a)  

chisel

(a)  

lifeguard

(a)  

waste land

(a)  

take possession of

(a)  

petition

(a)  

troop exercises

(a)  

retain

(a)  

more or less

(a)  

outline

(a)  

lily pond

(a)  

a sharp bend

(a)  

enlarge

(a)  

maze

(a)  

a right-angle bend

(a)  

publicise

(a)  

Presumably

(a)  

a good lead-in 

(a)  

come out

(a)  

adapt

(a)  

quotation

(a)  

amusement

(a)  

draw on his experience

(a)  

social justice

(a)  

satire 

(a)  

heroine

(a)  

guardian

(a)  

a debtors’ prison

(a)  

inherits a fortune

(a)  

a case study

(a)  

arid

(a)  

rainfall

(a)  

charcoal

(a)  

systems of irrigation

(a)  

dependable

(a)  

livestock breeding

(a)  

fence off

(a)  

pump

(a)  

preservation

(a)  

initiative

(a)  

tank

(a)  

breeding fish

(a)  

colonies of bees

(a)  

marked improvement

(a)  

realistic timeline

(a)