After Puzzle 4

I've discovered the pleasures of middle age: I know the VP between Hubert and Gerald (5 letters). He was from Maryland, about the only famous person from that state, with the exception of Cal Ripken. An object of derision in my family at the time.

The theme to puzzle 4 was "without fail," and the answers to the long clues were
--uncle buck (John Candy movie)
--brass hat (military pooh-bah)
--juice bar (place to buy a smoothie)
--blow torch (tool with a flame)
--doing time (serving a sentence)
--wavy gravy (Woodstock emcee who had a Ben and Jerry's flavor named after him)

"What you can do to the end of each of these answers" (67 across) is "pass". Hence, without fail. Very droll.

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