Possible Clues:

• By way of, to Burns
• 'And ___ the field the road runs by': Tennyson
• Via, archaically
• Truncated preposition
• Via, old-style
• "Comin' ___ the Rye" (Robert Burns poem)
• Sno-___ (winter blower brand)
• Poetic preposition
• Via, Г la Burns
• Via, once