Dad’s Birthday

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