Possible Clues:

• *Evaluated ... or, read differently, a hint to the word progressing through the starred clues' answers
• Phone feature put up and sized up
• Disappear (anag)
• Did judge disappear after being corrupted?
• Told about article being valued
• Valued
• How a priest may be reckoned to have been brought up
• Valued a piano, much admired
• A political leader was complimentary and that's valued
• Father is up to being applauded and valued