Answer:

mere

Answer	Crossword Clue
MERE	Being nothing more than
MERE	Insignificant
MERE	Parisian parent

MERE	Simple
MERE	Small
MERE	Bare
MERE	Just
MERE	Michel's mother
MERE	Nothing but
MERE	Nothing more than
MERE	Piddling

MERE	Mother, to Marcel
MERE	Paltry
MERE	??
MERE	Measly
MERE	Unembellished
MERE	Trifling
MERE	No more than
MERE	Plain and simple

MERE	"... anarchy is loosed upon the world": Yeats
MERE	Pure
MERE	"A ... formality"
MERE	Like mortals?
MERE	Only
MERE	Insubstantial
MERE	Marginally sufficient
MERE	Nothing better than

MERE	"A .. formality"
MERE	Little more than
MERE	Inconsequential
MERE	Scant
MERE	"... for a .. pittance"
MERE	"A .. technicality"
MERE	It often precedes technicalities
MERE	Pure and simple

MERE	.. mortals
MERE	Barely sufficient
MERE	For a .. pittance
MERE	Not much more than
MERE	A ... bagatelle