Shouted to the daughter held captive below (9)
I believe the answer is:
thundered
'shouted' is the definition.
(thundering is a kind of shouting)
'the daughter held captive below' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'held captive' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'below' becomes 'under' ('under' can be a synonym of 'below').
'the'+'d'='thed'
'thed' going around 'under' is 'THUNDERED'.
'to' is the link.
(Another definition for thundered that I've seen is " Did like the Times".)
I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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