1: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)
2: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)
3: Bring someone to Court Street meeting (5)
4: Orange lipstick shows spirit (5)
5: Sheds last one carelessly (4-3)
6: Buried by confused Hindu who took me in. (7)
9: Record Buttrose with acidity in her final judgment (7)
10: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)
13: Language - one with a Latin derivation (7)
14: Both alternatives before artist in Pyrenees republic (7)
15: Bird seems unsure before small travelling salesmen (7)
16: Huge, brave lion (3,4)
18: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)
19: Runs in place without a top--without a top OR bottom (5)