Answer:

panama

Answer	Crossword Clue
PANAMA	Type of hat
PANAMA	Canal locale
PANAMA	Site of 1989's Operation Just Cause

PANAMA	Where balboas are spent
PANAMA	Where to spend balboas
PANAMA	Zonian's environs
PANAMA	Hat that, ironically, originated in Ecuador
PANAMA	Southernmost Central American country
PANAMA	Canal site
PANAMA	Colón locale
PANAMA	Country linking two oceans

PANAMA	Canal country
PANAMA	Jipijapa hat
PANAMA	Neighbor of Colombia
PANAMA	Costa Rica neighbor
PANAMA	Country that seceded from Colombia
PANAMA	Brimmed topper
PANAMA	Jipijapa topper
PANAMA	Canal Zone locale

PANAMA	1984 Van Halen song
PANAMA	Hat or canal
PANAMA	Land on an isthmus
PANAMA	Colombia neighbor
PANAMA	Land explored by Balboa
PANAMA	Isthmus locale
PANAMA	Isthmus land
PANAMA	Nicaragua neighbor

PANAMA	Central American land
PANAMA	Summer hat
PANAMA	Country with a major canal
PANAMA	Southernmost land in North America
PANAMA	End of a well-known palindrome
PANAMA	Location of a great engineering feat.
PANAMA	Strategic region of hemisphere defense.
PANAMA	Strategic isthmus.

PANAMA	Where Lieut. Gen. Brett commands.
PANAMA	Mitigator of Cape Horn.
PANAMA	President de la Guardia's country.
PANAMA	Republic S. of U. S.
PANAMA	Uncle Sam's lease expired here recently.