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Filmed by night - it's a chancy business (4,2,3,4)

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shot in the dark

luck of the draw
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'chancy business' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'filmed by night it's a' is the wordplay.
'filmed' becomes 'shot' ('shoot' can be a synonym of 'film').
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'night' becomes 'dark' (synonyms).
'it's a' becomes 'inthe' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'dark' put after 'inthe' is 'inthedark'.
'shot'+'inthedark'='SHOT IN THE DARK'

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(Other definitions for shot in the dark that I've seen before include "Pure guess" , "Blind guess" , "Guess based on little information" , "Wild guess" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Irish Independent.
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