Complete
00:00:00
8 10 13 16 6 5 19 1 17 2 9 14 3 11 15 4 12 18 7
  1. 5 a Otto, German-born American conductor and composer, d. 1973 (9)
  2. 8 a Was aware of (4)
  3. 9 a It lasts 366 days (4,4)
  4. 10 a Lay eyes on (6)
  5. 11 a Strip (6)
  6. 13 a Squeeze tightly together (6)
  7. 15 a Swindle — sleuth (anag) (6)
  8. 16 a Factors on which a decision is made (8)
  9. 18 a Flops (4)
  10. 19 a Touchy (9)
  11. 1 d Ease up (4,4)
  12. 2 d Looked glad (6)
  13. 3 d Old explosive device used for blasting holes in gates and walls (with which one should avoid hoisting oneself!) (6)
  14. 4 d Flout (4)
  15. 6 d Embellish (speech or writing) with different material — learn dirt (anag) (9)
  16. 7 d Overwhelming victory — natural disaster (9)
  17. 12 d Sudden downturn (8)
  18. 14 d Unorthodox opinion (6)
  19. 15 d Wellbeing (6)
  20. 17 d Plural pronoun, now also used as a gender-neutral substitute for 'she' or 'he' (4)

Across

Down