Confronted, this setter cried loudly (9)
I believe the answer is:
eyeballed
'confronted' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'this setter cried loudly' is the wordplay.
'this setter' becomes 'eye' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cried' becomes 'bawled' ('bawl' can be a synonym of 'cry').
'loudly' shows a homophone (sound like) (when spoken - not silently).
'bawled' is a homophone of 'balled'.
'eye'+'balled'='EYEBALLED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eyeballed that I've seen before include "Watched" , "confronted" , "Stared at" , "looked at" .)