how do you cross your feet with figure skating?

I am a clockwise skater too! Technically, your legs don't really cross on one-rotation jumps. They don't cross like you see in pictures and stuff until the double/triple jumps. On single jumps, one leg is in front of the other, but not tightly crossed. And actually, it happens naturally. I don't really think about it when I jump. If you do think about it, you may end up pre-turning and overrotating your jump (or falling and underrotating). To answer your questions, your leg doesn't actually move up or down or glide or anything while in the air, it just goes straight in front of the back ankle then back out. The angle of the crossed leg really has no bearing on the jump.

So to sum up, don't worry about it, it naturally occurs, and if you overthink it you'll probably do it wrong. :)

You only really start crossing your feet on axels. The remaining single jumps are pretty much open although some people do manage to briefly cross their feet on loop family jumps. If you've learned the back spin, it's kind of similar but not exactly the same. After you take off, you internally rotate so that your free leg is crossed over. Then you quickly push your free foot down so that it's at about the level of your landing side ankle. It all happens really fast and a lot of people refer to it as snapping into the back spin position. Incidentally, this is how jump rotation is properly created. For some people it may come naturally but most people need to go through various drills and walkthroughs in order to develop the required muscle memory. There isn't any time to think about it during the jump.

Um...it took your friend 1 year to do? No offense but your friend must be the most unco-ordinated person ever. I think I could do them in about three weeks, and smoothly in about six - that was back when I was skating once or twice a week, though. ASK YOUR COACH. No-one on here can tell you how to do it properly, not without demonstrations and seeing you skate. (PS: Most people call them "crossovers". I've almost never heard them called "cross cuts".)

i think the answer is to keep practicing and watch youtube videos