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Where choppers come down, the edge splitting skulls? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

helipads

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'where choppers come down' is the definition.
(where helicopters land)

'edge splitting skulls?' is the wordplay.
'edge' becomes 'lip' (lip is a kind of edge).
'splitting' indicates putting letters inside (some letters split a word into two).
'skulls?' becomes 'heads' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'lip' placed inside 'heads' is 'HELIPADS'.

'the' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for helipads that I've seen before include "where some aircraft come down" , "Areas for wingless aircraft to take off and land" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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