IMovie forces me to crossfade!  How can I stop it?!

So I'm teaching in iMovie 10 (iMovie X?) and trying to let people do hard audio cuts in their movies.
Imovie X wants to automatically crossfade any sound clips that get too close to one another, with no way to stop it.
My participants have recorded voice over and want to chop up the sound.
They lay the audio down on the bottom track, where it won't get shifted around by picture edits.
BUT if someone makes a cut in the audio (command-B) it cuts, and if we put two cut audio bits together so they are touching, it does a crossfade.  I can't see a way to force the audio to cut sharply.  This means if someone cuts a word out of a sentence, then moves the two remaining pieces back together, there's an automatic crossfade which means you can hear the word that was cut out overlapping with itself.
If I separate the audio by a few frames, the fade goes away, but then there's obviously a gap in the sound.
How do I prevent iMovie from crossfading?!
All the instructions I have found are from previous versions of iMovie, and no longer work...

I found the best way to solve this is to set the audio files how you want with your movie, and then save it all as a new file.  This way, the audio is attached to the new file, and will not crossfade when you cut it.

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