| CAPEHORN | The Panama Canal opening spared sailors the hazardous navigation around this southernmost headland o |
| ANTARCTICA | In 1935 Caroline Mikkelsen, wife of a Norwegian whaler, became the first woman known to have landed on this southernmost continent |
| SEVEREWEATHER | As ever, we're worried about the hazardous phenomena (6,7) |
| PILGRIM | Mayflower sailors, the ... Fathers |
| COLON | City and sea port in Panama, near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal (5) |
| BALBOA | Port in Panama, at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal (6) |
| GAILLARDCUT | The name used until 2000 for the south east section of the Panama Canal running through Culebra Mountain (8,3) |
| ROOSEVELT | Which US president organised the building of the Panama Canal in 1903 and was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize? (9) |
| CARIBBEAN | Sea connected to the Pacific by the Panama Canal (9) |
| SHIPPING | Perform with a choir going around popular port or going through the Panama Canal, for example (8) |
| SOUTHAMERICA | Rum, Taoiseach suggested flamboyantly, is from place to the east of the Panama canal |
| CRISTOBAL | Port on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal |
| TUG | Work boat used to move ships through the Panama Canal |
| LOCKS | Parts of the Panama Canal |
| STEAMSHOVELS | Machines used to dig the Panama Canal |
| BLAS | Gulf of San ___, east of the Panama Canal |
| ZONESHOT | Photo of the Panama Canal, once? |
| SIESTAS | Breaks along the Panama Canal? |
| ANCON | SS ___ (first ship to pass through the Panama Canal) |
| PACIFIC | Eastern(!) end of the Panama Canal |
