Great puzzle, thank you! And yes, we are in the days between - the days between Jerry Garcia's birth on August 1st, 1942, and his death on August 9th, 1995. "Rippled like still water" has always been a great paradox for me. Yeah, Dead Head over here (~};)
Made like still water, paradoxically, in a Greatful Dead tune (my dad would want me to point out now that the publication date of this puzzle, August 7, 2024, falls during the Days Between)
Down
1D
Danger
2D
"It's your turn to ___" (comment made to a passenger on an 8-Across, perhaps)
3D
Like most resumes, nowadays
4D
Taiwanese laptop brand
5D
Actor Malek who once interned at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, where many of August Wilson's plays were first developed