Crossword puzzle clue "layperson's counterpart"

a member of the clergy, also CLERICAL

one who sings ballads

a hair growing on the edge of the eyelid

a strongly alkaline solution obtained by leaching

flattened at the poles

ABBA, a Syrian cloth of goat's or camel's hair; an outer garment made of it, also ABA, ABAYA

the superior in a monastery

(Latin) the distance of a point from the y-axis measured parallel to the x-axis, also ABSCISS, ABSCISSE