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Regardless, whatever route you take (6)

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I believe the answer is:

anyway

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'regardless' is the definition.
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'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).

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(Other definitions for anyway that I've seen before include "Still" , "In any event" , "Regardless" , "Whatever happens" , "in spite of everything" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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