Possible Clues:

• Law that's practicable set up in prison
• Sounds as if he may get fired
• Contrapuntal composition
• Church dignitary
• Not 8 down that might go off in church, by the sound of it
• Cleric
• General rule observed in a cathedral
• Big gun, we hear, in the Church?
• Trick taking in an ecclesiastic
• Sounds as if one may go off to church