| Popeye's alternative, briefly | 33 |
| Place where drumsticks are often picked up | 42 |
| Place to order a bucket | 23 |
| Place for food in a bucket, informally | 38 |
| Place for a bucket of food | 26 |
| Org. with a Double Down sandwich | 32 |
| One of the brands of Yum! Brands | 32 |
| Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl" | 81 |
| Letters on buckets | 18 |
| Letters on a bucket | 19 |
| Letters for Col. Sanders | 24 |
| Its logo is a goateed man in an apron | 37 |
| Food-chain letters | 18 |
| Fast-food franchise that started in S. Salt Lake, Ut. | 53 |
| Fast food inits. | 16 |
| Double Down sandwich maker | 26 |
| Double Down chain | 17 |
| Crispy Twister seller | 21 |
| Crispy Twister sandwich offerer | 31 |
| Crispy Twister offerer | 22 |
| Company with a bucket list? | 27 |
| Colonel's charge, once | 26 |
| Colonel Sanders' co. | 24 |
| Col. Sanders's restaurant | 29 |
| Col. Sanders's place | 24 |
| Col. Sanders's letters | 26 |
| Col. Sanders's company | 26 |
| Col. Sanders's chain | 24 |
| Col. Sanders' Co. | 21 |
| Col. Sanders' chain | 23 |
| Col. Sanders place | 18 |
| Chain with pieces, briefly | 26 |
| Chain with an Extra Crispy option | 33 |
| Chain that dropped its full name in 1991 | 40 |
| Chain restaurant based in Louisville | 36 |
| Bucket source | 13 |
| "Original, crispy or grilled?" co. | 44 |
| "Original or crispy" offerer | 38 |
| "Original or crispy?" org. | 36 |
| "Finger-lickin' good" restaurant | 46 |
| "Finger lickin' good" sloganeer, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 84 |
| "___ No Longer Permitted To Use Word 'Eat' In Advertisements": Onion headline | 95 |
| 'Original or crispy' chain | 34 |
| Britney's ex, in tabloids | 29 |
| Britney's ex | 16 |
| Rapper once married to Spears, familiarly | 41 |
| Britney's ex, briefly | 25 |
| "PopoZão" rapper, familiarly | 41 |
| Old spy gp. | 11 |
| Cold war org. | 13 |
| Cold War grp. | 13 |
| Where Putin put in time, once | 29 |
| Putin's former org. | 23 |
| USSR's CIA | 14 |
| Russian secret police | 21 |
| Former CIA counterpart | 22 |
| CIA Cold War counterpart | 24 |
| Vladimir Putin's onetime org. | 33 |
| USSR spy org. | 13 |
| U.S.S.R. security police | 24 |
| Spy org. until 1991 | 19 |
| Soviet spy org. | 15 |
| Russian C.I.A. | 14 |
| Putin's old org. | 20 |
| One-time CIA target | 19 |
| Old USSR spy gp. | 16 |
| Old CIA foe | 11 |
| Former Vladimir Putin org. | 26 |
| Former gp. from the Kremlin | 27 |
| Former clandestine org. | 23 |
| Cold War spy org. | 17 |
| Cold War Soviet grp. | 20 |
| CIA rival, once | 15 |
| CIA foe, once | 13 |
| CIA Cold War opponent | 21 |
| "The Kremlin Letter" org. | 35 |
| Yuri Andropov headed it for 15 yrs. | 35 |
| Where Putin got his professional start | 38 |
| Vladimir Putin's one-time org. | 34 |
| USSR intelligence org. | 22 |
| U.S.S.R. spy group | 18 |
| U.S.S.R. snoops | 15 |
| U.S.S.R. security group | 23 |
| Spy grp. dissolved in 1991 | 26 |
| Soviet Union spy org. | 21 |
| Soviet spy agcy. | 16 |
| Soviet security agcy. | 21 |
| Soviet intelligence initials | 28 |
| Soviet agcy. | 12 |
| Security agcy. dismantled in 1991 | 33 |
| Russian security agcy. | 22 |
| Putin's org., once | 22 |
| Putin's onetime employer | 28 |
| Putin's grp. | 16 |
| Putin's former grp. | 23 |
| Putin's employer in the 1980s | 33 |
| Org. with a sword and shield in its logo | 40 |
| Org. once headed by Yuri Andropov | 33 |
| Org. in which Putin was once an officer | 39 |
| Onetime CIA rival | 17 |