Dad’s Birthday

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Across
  1. 4. A doe’s masculine counterpart is skipping Christmas(4,7)
  2. 7. The year mayor quimby’s inspiration died (9,5,5)
  3. 9. The royal and ancient pursuit of eighteen conclusions (4)
  4. 10. Acquistion by aisle (8)
  5. 11. A florentine smile’s Anglicised half (4)
  6. 14. Hibernia after the romans left (7)
  7. 15. Cucurbita’s carriage after midnight (7)
  8. 16. Odysseus made a decade of it (6)
Down
  1. 1. Caesar’s calendar left eight wearing ten (7)
  2. 2. A black rooster guards this straw wrapped Italian classic (7)
  3. 3. Walton’s contemplative deception (7)
  4. 5. Helios’ temporary signature (6)
  5. 6. Earhart before the surname (6)
  6. 8. A nave without cathedral ambitions (6)
  7. 12. What Axminster became without leaving Devon (6)
  8. 13. Belteshazzar before Babylon renamed him (6)