Proceeds indirectly

• Proceeds circuitously
• Old Slavic group
• Pursues, as one's way
• Goes to a poet
• Takes an indirect route
• ___ one's way (goes)
• Makes (one's way)
• Proceeds (one's way)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: wend )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wends \Wends\, n. pl.; sing. Wend . (Ethnol.) A Slavic tribe which once occupied the northern and eastern parts of Germany, of which a small remnant exists.