Splits a male burglar (9)
I believe the answer is:
cracksman
'burglar' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'splits a male' is the wordplay.
'splits' becomes 'cracks' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a male' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of male).
'cracks'+'man'='CRACKSMAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cracksman that I've seen before include "Burglar" , "Safe-breaker" .)