Unusual words starting with A

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Across
  1. 2. type of palm
  2. 4. unmitigated, out and out
  3. 5. East Asian servant or child’s nurse
  4. 6. small bovid, miniature water buffalo
  5. 7. Madagascan lemur
  6. 8. strong Asian drink
  7. 10. priest’s long white robe
  8. 11. dais, early pulpit
  9. 12. teleprompter
  10. 14. like green slime
  11. 15. black tropical bird with long tail, tropical cuckoo
  12. 16. Indian tourist shop
  13. 18. wing shaped, having wings
  14. 19. very (musical direction)
  15. 21. towering Lily that smells like rotting meat, calla lily
  16. 22. deductive
  17. 23. in the direction of the stern
  18. 25. Hindu soul
  19. 27. hassling behavior (abbrev.)
  20. 29. scope, range, compass, confines
  21. 30. goats hair fabric
  22. 32. narrow mountain ridge
  23. 33. reminder
  24. 34. trinkets, collection of anecdotes
  25. 36. iron-tipped slender spear
  26. 37. insight, glimpse
  27. 38. block of building stone
Down
  1. 1. dawn
  2. 2. fragrant oil, essential oil from flowers
  3. 3. jurisdiction of a monastery
  4. 4. false name, alias
  5. 7. Indian nursemaid
  6. 8. aardvark
  7. 9. seaweed’s formal name
  8. 11. perfection or highest point
  9. 13. used to prod an elephant
  10. 17. dwelling of a Hindu sage
  11. 20. indigo plant dye, dye yielding shrubs
  12. 22. short pithy saying
  13. 24. Central American rodent
  14. 25. sheltered
  15. 26. stenographer, transcriber
  16. 28. class of segmented worms
  17. 30. first Hebrew letter
  18. 31. protection, patronage, auspices
  19. 32. bring forward as evidence
  20. 33. botanical tree gardens
  21. 35. civil leader title in Turkey
  22. 38. rappel