This was posted by Turast in the 'No Answers' thread but I moved it to the 'Answers' thread as it was reported to me that "This contains/gives away stuff on the theme"
"To represent the scene of the exchange"...
Oh dear, yet again a thoroughly entertaining puzzle with superb red herrings, subtle misprints, amusing clues, is to be finished by another "I wonder what he has in mind?" bloody word search. OK, the name, OK the device, but what about the other 8 letters? What is meant by "contiguous"? IRRITATING!