Crossword 293: Change Holders
I had this great idea for a puzzle called “Change Holders,” featuring celebrity names with words like “cent” and “dime” and “nickel” and “quarter” hidden in the middle. So I found Dominick Elwes, the English portrait painter who eloped with an heiress in 1957, and Jacen Tan, the Singaporean film director, and Cristoforo di Messisbugo, the chef to the dukes of Ferrara, but then I began to have some doubts as to whether these particular celebrities, though household names in my household, were known to the hip young demographic I’m going for. Also “quarter” had me stymied. But I didn’t want to abandon the title, having gone to all the trouble of thinking it up, so I made this puzzle instead.
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