Minion vs Lucida grande: a unicode (sans) serif problem

Have a book composed in Minion but some references demand Unicode letters (0289) for example.
Fortunately Lucida Grande has the solution but it is sans serif und very invasive.
Could not find it in Adobe Folio a serif font for a best solution neither information in a web search...

You can use the Glyphs panel -- awkwardly, admittedly -- to check if the currently applied font has the glyph you're after. The Glyphs are in Unicode order (which are in hexadecimal, which adds to the fun), and if you hover the mouse over them, a little info window will tell you the unicode of the character under the pointer. If you start by selecting the 0289 Glyph in Lucida Grande, you can go back to the document, change the font of the selected text, go back to the Glyphs panel and see if there's an equivalent Glyph in each of the other fonts you've got, one by one. If there is one, it should appear selected in the Glyph panel.
A quick check shows that there are several sans-serif fonts that have the glyph you want (including Lucida Grande, as you know, and Arial Unicode), but none of the really nice Adobe text fonts that come with Indesign (Garamond Premiere Pro, Minion Pro, Warnock Pro, Chaparral Pro). But Times New Roman does (at least, the version I've got on my Mac).
And while Times New Roman is not a great match for Minion, it's better than Lucida Grande. At least it has serifs. If you can find a better one, do so.
Here's an easy way to fix the missing characters while keeping Minion as your main font. First, set up a character style that specifies the font Times New Roman. Then create a GREP Style in your text paragraph style that applies your new character style to any occurrence of \x{0289}. Each 0289 character will change to Times New Roman throughout the document. Set up a similar GREP style for each other unicode character you have, changing it to a font in which that character exists.

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