The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RICOCHET
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More clues leading to the result RICOCHET
- Glance from wealthy alien holding company
- Erotic dancing outside church — rebound hard to predict?
- Bouncer’s right to eat choice morsels
- Right choice affected response to contact
- Company cutting almost all wealth needing time to bounce back
- Staple food cut short – revolutionary opens holy books? Movement hard to predict!
- Glance from mixed choir, etc
- Paradoxically, one caught in the firing line with right to left shot?
- Rebound with wealthy alien seizing company
- Affluent holding company with excellent trade at first glance
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The straight part
We know that "shot" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shot = ricochet.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does RICOCHET mean?
RICOCHET noun- A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
- An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
- To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
- To operate upon by ricochet firing.