Dad's birthday cryptic

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Across
  1. 6. long path might confuse wide gary
  2. 7. grumpy geriatric examines "fort lad"
  3. 9. breaking: grin with pint making the newspaper front page
Down
  1. 1. historic spot, can it be spanish?
  2. 2. before a span of time, mechanical piece captures light
  3. 3. being smooth is not good around the learner
  4. 4. move rapidly increasingly, I hear on the English upland
  5. 5. to do this you need lightweight food - cook up the gimp can!
  6. 8. French man