Single Track Crossfade

What I'm trying to do I would think would be simple, and we have a very old audio application that does this quite well, but I have found no way to do this easily in Audition.
So I have an exactly 1:00 min audio file.  It starts with music which fades to ambient noise at :20, then applause, then applause fades to ambient again at :40 After that the next piece starts.
So I am going to cut the applause out.  I select from :20 to :40 and then do a cut.  So now the file is 40 seconds long, with my cut point at :20.  I can do an envelope to get the levels the same, but a lot of times there is more or less rustling, ambient noise, etc.  The ambient silence just sounds different, so I want to basically cross fade at that edit point to smooth it out.
I want to have a command now that does a crossfade with just that one audio track.  I basically tell it manual crossfade, specify a ms duration and it performs the crossfade with just the single file.
Example of how it would work : From the exact edit point, if I choose 50ms, it goes 25 ms before the edit point and does a linear fade out, 25ms after the edit point and does a linear fade in and then "merges" the two fades together.  The new file would be 40 sec - the 25ms from the merge so now it is 39.975 seconds long. 
I can pull this off in a multitrack editor with the same file on 2 tracks but that is insane.  I'm hoping this is simple, I just haven't found the right option ... any help would be greatly appreciated.

The snag with using the edit>mix-paste>crossfade method is that you have to position the cursor back into file by the duration of the crossfade, and this sometimes takes a bit of fiddling about, although it's certainly possible.
I wouldn't bother to do this that way at all, though. I'd just import the file into multitrack view, and either split it and drag one clip back over the other, shortening both of them by the requisite amount and allowing a crossfade - which of course you can adjust. Or place the clip twice, and simply shorten both clips, the crossfade being done exactly the same way. Quick mixdown, and you're done. This would almost certainly take less time than doing the whole operation in Edit View, because you wouldn't have to spend time discovering where exactly the right mixing point was in the file.

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