Retaining crop ratio in editing

Using LR2, and processing a large number of images, I always crop to a 6x4 ratio.  However, this seems to need to be manually set on each image.  I can set up other processing settings as a pre-set, but not the crop.  It wants to go to Original for each image.
Is there a way to skip this manual step and always crop to the 6x4 ratio?

That sets the crop ratio, and I've been doing that, but I still have to click "Custom" for every photo.  I was looking for a setting like a pre-set where all crops would be at this ratio without clicking anything.    A set-till-changed.  Any way to do this?

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