The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Make happen
2. Temporary interest
3. Avoid responsibility
4. Solicit contributions
5. Qualify
6. Desperate situation
7. Travel document
8. Computer ID
9. Law student's concern
10. Words after "Praise the Lord and ...........
11. Jewish holiday marking the Exodus from Egypt
12. Historic route through the Northern Sierra Nevada


Answers:

1. Bring to pass
2. Passing fancy
3. Pass the buck
4. Pass the hat
5. Pass muster
6. Pretty pass
7. Passport
8. Password
9. Passing the Bar
10. "pass the ammunition."
11. Passover
12. Donner Pass

Credit:  LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick
MAKING THE GRADE  (#1-6)