Steered sofa back around entrance (9)
I believe the answer is:
navigated
'steered' is the definition.
(navigating is a kind of steering)
'sofa back around entrance' is the wordplay.
'sofa' becomes 'divan' (divan is a kind of sofa).
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'entrance' becomes 'gate' (type of entrance).
'divan' written backwards gives 'navid'.
'navid' enclosing 'gate' is 'NAVIGATED'.
(Other definitions for navigated that I've seen before include "Guided" , "Sailed" .)