The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BLITHE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BLITHE
- Carefree bachelor having much flexibility
- Heading for ball, supple and cheerful
- Beethoven’s first, graceful and gay
- Student in scrap with man is completely unconcerned
- Untroubled when article on British life’s half missing
- Happy and carefree as a Round the World sailor, say
- Happy to prattle endlessly
- Bishop’s settled and he’s happy
- Happy, born flexible
- Coward’s spirit is kindled by British hero? Not half!
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The straight part
We know that "Happy and carefree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case happy and carefree = blithe.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BLITHE mean?
BLITHE adjective- (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful.
- Casually indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern.