Possible Clues:

• Lacking thought or spontaneity
• Kind of drawing
• Automatic
• A manual worker or artisan, especially in Shakespeare
• Artisan food preserves a name in style
• Perfunctory repast including tea -- largely pleasant
• Flute? Part played is routine
• Michael Caine set off (ie fired) automatic
• Robot-like as Bottom, say, in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Cold tea almost pleasant during breakfast, say