The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CREVICE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CREVICE
- Croatia's leader concerned with depravity in Split?
- Split with church over king’s depravity
- Crack team finally removed clamp
- Opening reading perhaps in church on sin
- Cleric, one about to divide church, creating split
- Crack case of cybercrime, catching cleric in charge
- English weakness after credit for crack
- Split with no love in heart, a character flaw
- Crack odd characters in cartel associated with depravity
- Mediocre Viceroy has a crack
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The straight part
We know that "split" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case split = crevice.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CREVICE mean?
CREVICE noun- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- To crack; to flaw.