Answer:

north

Answer	Crossword Clue
NORTH	Part of NAFTA
NORTH	Civil War victors
NORTH	"... to Alaska": 1960 film

NORTH	Toward Santa's pole
NORTH	True ...
NORTH	Dummy, in bridge columns
NORTH	Irangate figure
NORTH	Union
NORTH	Up, on a map
NORTH	Where snowbirds go in spring
NORTH	Fox's "War Stories With Oliver .."

NORTH	.. Star
NORTH	Direction in a Hitchcock title
NORTH	... Pole
NORTH	Document-shredding marine
NORTH	Colonel involved in Iran-Contra
NORTH	Confederacy foe, with "the"
NORTH	Bridge seat
NORTH	Direction to find Santa

NORTH	Towards the top of the atlas
NORTH	Bridge position
NORTH	Up, on maps
NORTH	Bridge-column dummy
NORTH	Straight up?
NORTH	"... Country" (2005 Charlize Theron film)
NORTH	Pole position?
NORTH	Compass point

NORTH	... Star: Polaris
NORTH	Tulsa-to-Topeka direction
NORTH	Up on a map
NORTH	.. Dakota
NORTH	Nanook's realm
NORTH	Arctic region
NORTH	Where a compass needle points
NORTH	Word in two state names

NORTH	Civil War side
NORTH	Cardinal point
NORTH	Toward the Arctic Circle
NORTH	.. Sea
NORTH	Up, at times