My name is Ben Chenoweth, and I'm currently a teacher at Donvale Christian College, in Melbourne, Australia. I've worked overseas with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and in Australia as a secondary and tertiary teacher. (I was the Educational Designer / eLearning Coordinator at Melbourne School of Theology for four years, and taught at Eastern College for some of that time.)
My main interests are music, writing, theology and various combinations of those. I have a number of other interests, including reading, crosswords (especially cryptics and metas), and computer games. I also enjoy programming. My About Me website (https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about) was put together as an HTML/CSS demonstration for my Year 10 Computing class. Another interesting programming project is my EPUB Metadata Editor (an open-source project on GitHub).
I must confess that I have never gone hunting, save for one memorable time when I was a child and Dad took us out rabbit shooting. Now rabbits are an introduced pest here in Australia so I guess we were just trying to do our bit to protect our native…
Full confession: I've never watched a single episode of the long-running UK drama "EastEnders". But there is something truly wonderful about the argot of the particular part of London in which this show is set. And so onwards to the puzzle! If you…
I created this puzzle in 2023 shortly after the final episode of season 1 of "The Last of Us" aired. Here's hoping that when this puzzle is published in April of 2024, season 2 comes out so that this puzzle appears amazingly relevant! [April 2024…
This began with a Facebook post on a friend's page that pointed me at something which I thought I could make into a meta puzzle. After some further thought I had a meta mechanism. But finding a grid to fit the mechanism into was hard. I went through…
I've had this one sitting in my "possible metas" notebook for a while now. Today, I just felt like I needed to create a meta and this one was the next on the list. It's definitely a "week 3", but I've tried to make the cluing fun and the meta should…
Look After The Theme And The Meta Will Take Care Of Itself (Meta)
■ · Published 2024-03-12T05:00:43.904Z
As per usual, we're gradually ramping up the difficulty as the month progresses. I had fun with the cluing so hopefully that means you will have fun with the solving! And then, of course, there's the meta to solve. About that: the answer to the meta…
I have a supersized puzzle for you this week, with this my first ever "weekend"-sized meta puzzle. There are a lot of words in this grid but that just means there are more opportunities for some fun cluing! It may also prove to be the only crossword…
In our house, every Saturday is laundry day. Actually, we do loads of washing mid-week, too. But Saturday is the day for specific items that need washing on a regular basis. Some of these just might be hidden in this puzzle. The answer to the meta is…
Goodness but this was one of the hardest grids I've ever put together! And yes, I know it didn't have to be a pangram; but when 39 down appeared early in proceedings, I just couldn't help myself. Ah well, let's hope all that effort was worth it. The…
When Cap'n Rick won the most recent Crosshare midi crossword contest and chose "The Sea" as the theme for the new contest I thought I should submit an entry both in homage to him as a meta constructor and also to see if I could cram a meta into an…
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