Sunday Puzzle: Get Short-I

On-air challenge: Every answer is a two-syllable compound word, in which the vowel in each half is a short "I." Example: Person who spends as little money as possible -- SKINFLINT 1. Slang for a football 2. What Don Quixote tilted against 3. Make tiny criticisms 4. Bit of makeup in a tube 5. Article for measuring the amount of oil in an engine 6. Tiny, tiny hole 7. Important person, informally 8. Stupid person, informally 9. Person or thing holding everything together 10. Person who crafts items out of a very soft metal 11. Exercise device worn around the wrist 12. Series of transparencies for projecting images onto a screen 13. Fancy kind of men's shoe Last week's challenge: This challenge came from listener Henrik Strandskov of Luck, Wis. Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team's name specify something that is an anagram of its interior letters. What team is it? Challenge answer: Red Sox -- Rx, dose Winner: Mary Tod of Baltimore Next week's