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).
As you will soon find out when you dive into this puzzle, I was working on this meta late on a Friday afternoon/evening and I think it shows: some of the clues are on the chatty side and I really let my punctuation slide. Let me say right at the…
Here's an interesting piece of trivia about the cover of the Beatles album "Help!": they are actually spelling out "N-U-J-V" in semaphore. Apparently, the photographer did not like the arm arrangements with the band spelling "H-E-L-P." And with that,…
I've really enjoyed filling in the occasional MEOW over the last few weeks. I relish the chance to explore some more challenging grids and throwing off some of the restraints and conventions of the genre. Here, for example, is a grid with (shock…
I should have been working on my thesis today but I just couldn't face it (I'll blame that on a slight headache). But a meta crossword? Oh yes, that's definitely doable! The answer to the meta is a two-word phrase. Answer & explanation: https://www…
This is a meta puzzle for those of you out there who can remember back to high school algebra class! And I am sorry if this puts some of you off but you will actually have to do some mathematics in order to get to the answer to the meta, which is a…
Apparently, Harry Nilsson was inspired to write "One Is The Loneliest Number", not as the result of a painful breakup, but because he made a phone call and got a busy signal. The "beep beep beep" caught his attention and so he incorporated a similar…
Here's a puzzle I threw together when I probably should have been working on my thesis in order to allow madhatter to work on his thesis! (OK, OK, time to get my nose back to the grindstone!) The answer to the meta is an exclamation. Answer and…
Last night as I was reading in bed, I thought of a possible metanism. I did a quick OneLook.com search for a few terms, just to see if the idea could work, wrote a short note so I wouldn't forget it, and then went to sleep. Then, in the early morning…
"Scrubs" was neither the first nor the last TV show to utilise a cold open, but in my opinion they perfected the genre. (And if you're a fan of "The Office", please, no hate! Their cold opens were also excellent, especially the one where Dwight…
So yes: this grid is going to be tricky. And yes: the meta might be on the difficult side, too. But persevere! I've provided a few pointers here and there, so hopefully you will find your way to the answer which is a four word phrase that means…