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A Parting of the Words

It's time for a little separation.

This puzzle's theme is all about wordplay, splitting single answers into two parts to solve the punny clues.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

3.Victory for novelist Jennifer?
6.1965 Beatles film and title track
7.Office division after G?
8.A picnic pest's pants cuff?
11.Perform a vanishing act
14.It may have a message or a genie inside
15.Deserve through excellence
16.Greeting to the Peach State?
17.The Gray Lady's sci-fi section, for short

Down

1.What a beer needs?
2.Thickens, as gravy or blood
4.Not subject to the rule
5.The real deal
7.Transfer from a planter?
9.With a pleasant and polite touch
10.A nun might wear them
12.A community's characteristic spirit
13.Memo subject regarding a California airport?

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