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At heart, Balearic cassette offers calm (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ease

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'calm' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'at heart balearic cassette' is the wordplay.
'at heart' says to take the centre.
'cassette' becomes 'se' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The middle letters of 'balearic' are 'ea'.
'ea'+'se'='EASE'

'offers' is the link.

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(Other definitions for ease that I've seen before include "Leisure, comfort" , "Comfort; facility" , "Move gently or carefully" , "Lack of difficulty" , "Comfort and repose" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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