The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SEGREGATE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SEGREGATE
- Separate Easter egg roughly
- Don’t join ‘Easter Egg’ movement
- Split up and get grease monkeys around
- To isolate grease, get liquid
- Isolate and get grease off
- Cracked Easter egg for 26?
- . Players, in front of Chappell, perhaps had to separate
- Gregory filling chair Earl initially set apart
- Broken Easter egg must be set apart
- Separate rotten Easter egg
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The straight part
We know that "Split up/Split up" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case split up/split up = segregate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SEGREGATE mean?
SEGREGATE verb- To separate, especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
- Separate; select.
- Separated from others of the same kind.
- Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.