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I Feel Ucky

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crossword, double or nothing

This is a cryptic crossword in a double-or-nothing grid, where each cell in the grid has either 0 or 2 letters.
clues, parse, extra words

Some clues need to be modified in order to parse, in a way that relates to "double or nothing". A number of clues need to be modified in one way, and an equal number need to be modified in another.
extraction

Try to pair up the doubled and removed words -- there should be 14 of each. The doubled words need to be modified in a very appropriate way in order to match them with the removed words.
extraction, paired

In each pair of a doubled word and removed word, one clue is Across and one is Down. Overall, there are 14 pairs, equal to the number of rows and columns in the grid. Use this to extract 14 squares from the grid, one for each pair, then read top-to-bottom.
final clue

You have LOOK OVER EPISODES IN CRUST SEVEN; this matches with the blanks to form a cryptic clue, for which SEVEN is the enumeration (answer length). This cryptic clue needs to be modified slightly, in a way reminiscent of what you did earlier in the puzzle. Why do some of the words have two underlines?
final clue, doubled

After doubling the underlined words, you have the clue phrase "LOOK OVER OVER EPISODES IN IN CRUST CRUST (7)", another cryptic clue. Some hints:
-- The definition is "LOOK OVER".
-- Episodes is often abbreviated "eps". But remember the other "OVER".
-- One (but not both) of the INs means "put inside".
-- "Crust" can mean "outer letters".

I've lost so much I think I'm gonna be sick... double or nothing?

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Across

Across
  1. Chop meat after removing overcooked center to make medium
  2. Crazy reason to commit crime, track vehicle
  3. Cat toy? God, the thousand in a wooden container is becoming close to sufficient
  4. Capable of being reserved, Radley goes before bleak mix-up
  5. Popular fringe science remedy is unsafe
  6. Bird topples from plastic post, eats bit of insect very abruptly (2 wds.)
  7. To begin with, every month exclusively retell your father each gritty thing (2 wds.)
  8. Tar Heels playing without heart, case of total holes in the head.
  9. Beer and pop distributed in city
  10. Hi! Condolences, losing a love is torture.
  11. Relax in dance audition for Hawaiian circles
  12. "Don't start": Simon's response to "Are you logged in?" (2 wds.)
  13. "The Force Awakens", for one, about Qui-gon and Elsbeth, giving the primary two characters
  14. West African to talk at length on three points
  15. Carrying Hush Puppies without laces, for example, makes Nova Scotia Democrat careless
  16. Conservatives don't read the start of news articles
  17. Draw attention to love Indiana invested into extreme putt, evenly bagging hole (2 wds.)
  18. In the end zone Peyton making great catch after fifty yards for half a football field
  19. Really liked small breasts
  20. In Berlin, one boarded a boat with fishing nets
  21. We hear, perhaps, a peeping Tom who sings
  22. Noisily chew chocolate bar
  23. Group of soldiers beheaded in grassy area on college campus, amen
  24. Nonsense, prostitutes have use in dormitories
  25. Took too much from an account of Italian composer almost getting trapped by rocks in a mine (tungsten)
  26. Primarily tin contains bit of umami and diced reed -- it's cold on the outside but sweet on the inside in Japan
  27. High five between perverted Lee and one senator Cruz
  28. Pachelbel's Canon major completer goes back, acquires half-forgotten spouse, is mistreated
  29. Lolcat captivates English actor Jackie Eliot
  30. I can't wait til despot loses power and is destroyed (3 wds.)

Down

Down
  1. Give me Nickelback or a famous rapper
  2. "Foundation" is crass
  3. Contra caller's mutt ingests bit of espagnole sauce
  4. Payment processor of the Holy Father accepts cryptocurrency, finally
  5. Actress looks back, embraces end of employment
  6. Seth puzzled about confusing item in cryptic crossword publication (2 wds.)
  7. Essentially in autopilot, I hurry onwards making preparation
  8. Huguenot disheartened more courageous adventurer
  9. Officers upset contracted sci-fi character
  10. Dunce coming from two Midwest states
  11. Most importantly, abs love to be utilized repeatedly (3 wds.)
  12. Bathroom contractors split counter when papa goes out for half-serving of beer
  13. Secret career is heartless facade
  14. Put in close proximity navigation app and operating system "Echo"
  15. Hear two in this matter
  16. Question "Awake?" interrupted by English "yo mamma" utterance, for example
  17. Delegator's smooth
  18. Manhattan, for example, is clean to can
  19. Crime boss put bullets in doppelganger (not dead!)
  20. Hermit's son thrashing about in hut (hyph.)
  21. Soldiers regularly producing poems
  22. Physicist is unexciting speaker for the audience
  23. An obsidian portal can take you there, but it's messed up after the end of civilization
  24. Rudimentary weapons break things, taking zero skill, extremely stupid (at first) outside
  25. According to the Reverend, Cash, of some rock music, is not important
  26. Tie the knot again after Charlie worked on a ship
  27. Intergovernmental organization uniform black, not fit for service
  28. Busts famous communist spies at borders. About time!
  29. Rings of witches banish most extreme members to location where one of them was killed by two children
  30. Thoroughly beat 1-to-50 egg dish, at last rising
  31. Flipping car, leftover ticket results in objections
  32. Revert unoriginal hair-behind-the-head do
  33. Looking up, evenly appealed to Roman god
  34. Website, third-place, to step up and change yet again
  35. Actress Heller Wood is somewhat relevant
  36. Oath made by Greek house: to improve failing grade