Regardless, whatever route you take (6)
I believe the answer is:
anyway
'regardless' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'whatever route you take' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'route' could be 'way' (way is a kind of route) and 'way' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'any' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anyway that I've seen before include "Still" , "In any event" , "Regardless" , "Whatever happens" , "in spite of everything" .)