diff --git a/scrapy/crawler.py b/scrapy/crawler.py
index 22fd65be7..6f54e62e9 100644
--- a/scrapy/crawler.py
+++ b/scrapy/crawler.py
@@ -404,8 +404,8 @@ class CrawlerProcess(CrawlerRunner):
         :param bool stop_after_crawl: stop or not the reactor when all
             crawlers have finished
 
-        :param bool install_signal_handlers: whether to install the shutdown
-            handlers (default: True)
+        :param bool install_signal_handlers: whether to install the OS signal
+            handlers from Twisted and Scrapy (default: True)
         """
         from twisted.internet import reactor
 
@@ -416,15 +416,17 @@ class CrawlerProcess(CrawlerRunner):
                 return
             d.addBoth(self._stop_reactor)
 
-        if install_signal_handlers:
-            install_shutdown_handlers(self._signal_shutdown)
         resolver_class = load_object(self.settings["DNS_RESOLVER"])
         resolver = create_instance(resolver_class, self.settings, self, reactor=reactor)
         resolver.install_on_reactor()
         tp = reactor.getThreadPool()
         tp.adjustPoolsize(maxthreads=self.settings.getint("REACTOR_THREADPOOL_MAXSIZE"))
         reactor.addSystemEventTrigger("before", "shutdown", self.stop)
-        reactor.run(installSignalHandlers=False)  # blocking call
+        if install_signal_handlers:
+            reactor.addSystemEventTrigger(
+                "after", "startup", install_shutdown_handlers, self._signal_shutdown
+            )
+        reactor.run(installSignalHandlers=install_signal_handlers)  # blocking call
 
     def _graceful_stop_reactor(self) -> Deferred:
         d = self.stop()
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/ossignal.py b/scrapy/utils/ossignal.py
index 2334ea792..db9a71273 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/ossignal.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/ossignal.py
@@ -19,13 +19,10 @@ def install_shutdown_handlers(
     function: SignalHandlerT, override_sigint: bool = True
 ) -> None:
     """Install the given function as a signal handler for all common shutdown
-    signals (such as SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc). If override_sigint is ``False`` the
-    SIGINT handler won't be install if there is already a handler in place
-    (e.g.  Pdb)
+    signals (such as SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc). If ``override_sigint`` is ``False`` the
+    SIGINT handler won't be installed if there is already a handler in place
+    (e.g. Pdb)
     """
-    from twisted.internet import reactor
-
-    reactor._handleSignals()
     signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, function)
     if signal.getsignal(signal.SIGINT) == signal.default_int_handler or override_sigint:
         signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, function)
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/testproc.py b/scrapy/utils/testproc.py
index 5f7a7db14..0688e014b 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/testproc.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/testproc.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
 import sys
-from typing import Iterable, Optional, Tuple, cast
+from typing import Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, cast
 
 from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
 from twisted.internet.error import ProcessTerminated
@@ -26,14 +26,15 @@ class ProcessTest:
         env = os.environ.copy()
         if settings is not None:
             env["SCRAPY_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = settings
+        assert self.command
         cmd = self.prefix + [self.command] + list(args)
         pp = TestProcessProtocol()
-        pp.deferred.addBoth(self._process_finished, cmd, check_code)
+        pp.deferred.addCallback(self._process_finished, cmd, check_code)
         reactor.spawnProcess(pp, cmd[0], cmd, env=env, path=self.cwd)
         return pp.deferred
 
     def _process_finished(
-        self, pp: TestProcessProtocol, cmd: str, check_code: bool
+        self, pp: TestProcessProtocol, cmd: List[str], check_code: bool
     ) -> Tuple[int, bytes, bytes]:
         if pp.exitcode and check_code:
             msg = f"process {cmd} exit with code {pp.exitcode}"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 47c0af0b0..405633f55 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ version = (Path(__file__).parent / "scrapy/VERSION").read_text("ascii").strip()
 
 
 install_requires = [
-    # 23.8.0 incompatibility: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/6024
-    "Twisted>=18.9.0,<23.8.0",
+    "Twisted>=18.9.0",
     "cryptography>=36.0.0",
     "cssselect>=0.9.1",
     "itemloaders>=1.0.1",
diff --git a/tests/CrawlerProcess/sleeping.py b/tests/CrawlerProcess/sleeping.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..420d9d328
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/CrawlerProcess/sleeping.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
+
+import scrapy
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
+from scrapy.utils.defer import maybe_deferred_to_future
+
+
+class SleepingSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = "sleeping"
+
+    start_urls = ["data:,;"]
+
+    async def parse(self, response):
+        from twisted.internet import reactor
+
+        d = Deferred()
+        reactor.callLater(3, d.callback, None)
+        await maybe_deferred_to_future(d)
+
+
+process = CrawlerProcess(settings={})
+
+process.crawl(SleepingSpider)
+process.start()
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index c07fda2d6..d4bfead40 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Tests requirements
 attrs
+pexpect >= 4.8.0
 pyftpdlib >= 1.5.8
 pytest
 pytest-cov==4.0.0
diff --git a/tests/test_command_shell.py b/tests/test_command_shell.py
index 6589381f3..7d87eb62c 100644
--- a/tests/test_command_shell.py
+++ b/tests/test_command_shell.py
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
+import sys
+from io import BytesIO
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from pexpect.popen_spawn import PopenSpawn
 from twisted.internet import defer
 from twisted.trial import unittest
 
 from scrapy.utils.testproc import ProcessTest
 from scrapy.utils.testsite import SiteTest
 from tests import NON_EXISTING_RESOLVABLE, tests_datadir
+from tests.mockserver import MockServer
 
 
 class ShellTest(ProcessTest, SiteTest, unittest.TestCase):
@@ -133,3 +137,25 @@ class ShellTest(ProcessTest, SiteTest, unittest.TestCase):
         args = ["-c", code, "--set", f"TWISTED_REACTOR={reactor_path}"]
         _, _, err = yield self.execute(args, check_code=True)
         self.assertNotIn(b"RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread", err)
+
+
+class InteractiveShellTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_fetch(self):
+        args = (
+            sys.executable,
+            "-m",
+            "scrapy.cmdline",
+            "shell",
+        )
+        logfile = BytesIO()
+        p = PopenSpawn(args, timeout=5)
+        p.logfile_read = logfile
+        p.expect_exact("Available Scrapy objects")
+        with MockServer() as mockserver:
+            p.sendline(f"fetch('{mockserver.url('/')}')")
+            p.sendline("type(response)")
+            p.expect_exact("HtmlResponse")
+        p.sendeof()
+        p.wait()
+        logfile.seek(0)
+        self.assertNotIn("Traceback", logfile.read().decode())
diff --git a/tests/test_crawler.py b/tests/test_crawler.py
index 2b141e894..60b92377d 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawler.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 import logging
 import os
 import platform
+import signal
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
 
 import pytest
 from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
+from pexpect.popen_spawn import PopenSpawn
 from pytest import mark, raises
 from twisted.internet import defer
 from twisted.trial import unittest
@@ -289,9 +292,12 @@ class ScriptRunnerMixin:
     script_dir: Path
     cwd = os.getcwd()
 
-    def run_script(self, script_name: str, *script_args):
+    def get_script_args(self, script_name: str, *script_args: str) -> List[str]:
         script_path = self.script_dir / script_name
-        args = [sys.executable, str(script_path)] + list(script_args)
+        return [sys.executable, str(script_path)] + list(script_args)
+
+    def run_script(self, script_name: str, *script_args: str) -> str:
+        args = self.get_script_args(script_name, *script_args)
         p = subprocess.Popen(
             args,
             env=get_mockserver_env(),
@@ -517,6 +523,29 @@ class CrawlerProcessSubprocess(ScriptRunnerMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn("Spider closed (finished)", log)
         self.assertIn("The value of FOO is 42", log)
 
+    def test_shutdown_graceful(self):
+        sig = signal.SIGINT if sys.platform != "win32" else signal.SIGBREAK
+        args = self.get_script_args("sleeping.py")
+        p = PopenSpawn(args, timeout=5)
+        p.expect_exact("Spider opened")
+        p.expect_exact("Crawled (200)")
+        p.kill(sig)
+        p.expect_exact("shutting down gracefully")
+        p.expect_exact("Spider closed (shutdown)")
+        p.wait()
+
+    def test_shutdown_forced(self):
+        sig = signal.SIGINT if sys.platform != "win32" else signal.SIGBREAK
+        args = self.get_script_args("sleeping.py")
+        p = PopenSpawn(args, timeout=5)
+        p.expect_exact("Spider opened")
+        p.expect_exact("Crawled (200)")
+        p.kill(sig)
+        p.expect_exact("shutting down gracefully")
+        p.kill(sig)
+        p.expect_exact("forcing unclean shutdown")
+        p.wait()
+
 
 class CrawlerRunnerSubprocess(ScriptRunnerMixin, unittest.TestCase):
     script_dir = Path(__file__).parent.resolve() / "CrawlerRunner"