Independent 25.07.09

[tuftybri]

1 ac Canadian tennis player can follow that in French(9) No letters 1 d He rang the bells one Sunday after Easter (9) No letters 5 d Teetotaller's usual practice in church, following religious teaching (9) - - C - A - I - - 13 d Bishop intervenes in miner's row, we hear: the fool ((9) No letters 16 d Softest detergent's turned out no good (9) T - - -E - E - -
Thanks a lot in advance!

[Totterdown]

5d - RECHABITE - (can't remember how I got this)
13D - NUMBSKULL (NUM (miners union) + row (as in oar) and B (bishop) intervening
16D - TENDEREST (anagram detergents withouth G)

[Totterdown]

5D - HABIT (usual practice) in CE (church), starting with RE (religious education). Knew I must have worked it out somehow.

[SpodoCommodo]

1d Quasimodo

[greyfox]

Que becker

[JandyAF]

16d Tenderest = Anagram of detergents less the g.

[Mikejas]

I seem to remember that Quasimodo was so called because he was born on Low Sunday (1st Sunday after Easter) and the opening word of a prayer used in the mass on that Sunday was Quasimodo. Or there again, I might be completely wrong as it's a long time since I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame or went to church.