Evenly balanced (5)
I believe the answer is:
equal
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">evenly balanced</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for equal that I've seen before include "Match, rival" , "Peer; evenly balanced" , "What Orwell's animals were" , "Match; peer" , "Fifty-fifty" .)