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).
It's time to play "name that author". I've had this idea in my notes for a while. After coming up with the themers I thought filling in the rest of the grid would be a snap. Not so! Good luck as you jump into the grid and attempt to solve the meta…
Here's a nice puzzle for you, inspired by many, many, many crosswords I have solved over the years. The answer to the meta is a 10-letter word that you might exclaim upon solving the meta. Nudges available here: https://www.xword-muggles.com…
I had never heard of Mike Doughty or the band he used to front, Soul Coughing. But when Paste Magazine included a song called "Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well" on one of their monthly sample CDs, I was hooked. Turns out Mike had just…
Those of you with long memories will perhaps have an advantage solving this one, given that this is a companion meta to one that ran in 2023. While I've scheduled this one as a "week 4", it may prove to be a little easier than that. And there's a…
I love the way these meta puzzles come together! From initial idea to possible theme entries to a grid to the clues: you never quite know what's going to come along in the process. This one had some serendipitous moments, let me tell you! The answer…
Joni Mitchell's song "Both Sides Now" is a beautiful song with amazing lyrics full of deep melancholy. On a personal level, I actually have a childhood memory of my father playing the guitar and singing this song. Only problem is I misheard the…
This was a late-night meta idea that I dropped into my meta notebook so that I could sleep without thinking about it. But I still thought about it! Then, in the morning, I worked out the mechanics and the meta answer, and then just went right on and…
This puzzle is brought to you by the "probably should have left this one in the ideas book!" school of meta construction. For xword-muggle patrons, it's definitely more of a MEOW than a MOAT! The answer to the meta is a 2-word phrase. Answer…
Oh no, it's time for another "week 4" puzzle! Having said that I'm hoping you will exclaim "what a relief!" after you get to the answer without too much trouble. (At the very least I hope you have less trouble than my daughters trying to get tickets…
I'm desperately trying to finish this crossword before the Matildas play Sweden in the bronze medal match of the FIFA Women's World Cup. (There's a time marker for those of you who were wondering how far ahead I constructed this one!) That has…