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Simply a piece of cake (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

facile

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'a piece of cake' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for facile that I've seen before include "Easy to accomplish" , "Simplistic" , "Smooth" , "A piece of cake" , "Superficial - glib" .)

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