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Bowled everyone after easy game (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

softball

'game' is the definition.
(softball is a kind of game)

'bowled everyone after easy' is the wordplay.
'bowled' becomes 'b' (cricket abbreviation).
'everyone' becomes 'all' (I've seen this before).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'easy' becomes 'soft' ('soft' can be similar in meaning to 'easy'**).
'b'+'all'='ball'
'ball' put after 'soft' is 'SOFTBALL'.

(Other definitions for softball that I've seen before include "Junior variant of baseball" , "played by young American" , "sport!"" , "game" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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