Possible Clues:

• Pilot at a given diversion
• Scandal depicted in 'Avatar'?
• Set (a ship's) course
• Take the helm with new vintage consuming last of the Rioja
• Find way to raise the terrible match attendance
• Plan a course
• Boatman would move thus, with a labourer's walk, say
• Direct barrier faced by tsar in revolution
• Go by sea
• Plan route of vehicle around India, given possible entry point