| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| FISSURES | Splits | |
| DIVIDES | Splits | |
| SCHISMS | Political splits | |
| NITPICKS | Splits hairs | |
| CAVILS | Splits hairs | |
| DISBANDS | Splits up (club) | |
| SUBDIVIDES | Splits up further | |
| SUBDIVIDED | Splits up further | |
| RIFTS | Splits, breaks or cracks | |
| RIVER | One who rives or splits. | |
| SPLITTER | One who, or that which, splits. | |
| REALLOCATES | Re: Al? Oh Cate’s mentioned splits again | |
| ATOLL | Back lot splits up borders of Angel Island | |
| FLAG | Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. | |
| SLATE | An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. | |
| SCHIZOCARP | A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions. | |
| BIVALVE | A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves. | |
| SEPTICIDAL | Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels. | |
| TRIPLOBLASTIC | Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers. | |
| EARTHSTAR | A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. | |