- KFC
- Chain whose founder described its gravy as "sludge" with a "wallpaper taste" (after selling the company for two million dollars)
- Chain with HQ in Louisville
- Restaurant chain that began in a former filling station along U.S. Route 25
- Maker of a dish Patton Oswalt called a "failure pile in a sadness bowl"
- Fast food restaurant with a Fill-Up option
- Double Down chain
- Bucket chain
- Popeyes rival
- Sanders' biz
- Fast-food chain based in Louisville
- Chain restaurant based in Louisville
- Chain that dropped its full name in 1991
- Eatery with many buckets
- Popular chain whose letters don't stand for anything anymore
- It traces its origins to the Sanders Café, built in 1940
- So good sloganeer
- It once held a patent titled "Design -- man dressed in white suit"
- Foghorn Leghorn once shilled for it
- Col. Sanders' chain
- Fast food chain, briefly
- Col. Sanders's letters
- Letters for Col. Sanders
- Colonel Sanders' co.
- Col. Sanders franchise
- Col. Sanders's chain
- The Colonel's business, initially
- Doublicious maker
- Fast food initials
- Fast-food chain, initially
- The Colonel's place, initially
- Yum! Brands, Inc. subsidiary
- Original or crispy? org.
- Largest fast-food chain in China
- Finger lickin' good sloganeer, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Chain with pieces, briefly
- Col. Sanders's company
- Org. with a Double Down sandwich
- Original, crispy or grilled? co.
- Double Down sandwich maker
- Chain whose website has a "Find a Colonel Near You" feature
- Louisville-based fast-food company
- Place with a bucket list?
- Fast-food co. serving buckets
- Company whose X account only follows some Spice Girls and seven guys named Herb
- Crispy Colonel sandwich seller
- Roy Rogers alternative
- Col. Sanders' place
- Food-chain letters
- Taco Bell alternative
- Tender vendor
- Yum! Brands subsidiary
- Big seller of buckets
- Pizza Hut sister brand
- Seller of $5 Fill Ups
- Taco Bell sister brand
- Colonel Sanders' chain
- It makes bucks from buckets
- Letters on a bucket of chicken
- Rival of Mickey D's
- Colonel Sanders's restaurant
- Finger lickin' good chain
- Col. Sanders's place
- Fast-food inits.
- Popular fast-food chain
- Popeye's alternative, briefly
- The Colonel's restaurant inits.
- Col. Sanders's restaurant chain
- Finger-lickin' good restaurant
- Fast-food franchise that started in S. Salt Lake, Ut.
- Restaurant with wings
- Original or crispy offerer
- Crispy Twister sandwich offerer
- Its logo is a goateed man in an apron
- Restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville
- Col. Sanders's restaurant
- Letters on a bucket
- Crispy Twister offerer
- Colonel's charge, once
- Company with a bucket list?
- One of the brands of Yum! Brands
- Purveyor of the Doublicious sandwich
- Chain attached to buckets?
- Louisville-based restaurant chain
- Sister of Pizza Hut
- Where you might exchange tender for tenders
- Colonel's chain
- Preparer of fast food that's "finger-lickin' good"
- Finger-lickin' good food establishment
- Fast-food chain with a goateed spokesman
- One of the Yum! brands
- The Colonel's restaurant
- Seller of Famous Bowls
- Inits. on a bucket of food
- Business for Sanders supporters?
- Big name in wings
- Colonel Sanders's chain
- Destination on a fast-food lover's bucket list?
- Fast-food chain whose secret recipe includes "11 herbs and spices"
- Chain letters?
- Place to order a bucket
- Chain with an Extra Crispy option
- Rival of Popeyes
- Alternative to Popeyes
- Fast food in buckets
- Sponsor of the Lifetime mini-movie "A Recipe for Seduction"
- 'Original or crispy' chain
- Chain with a Chicken Little menu item
- Where Sanders pays the minimum wage
- Jason Alexander does ads for them
- Sanders org.
- Fast-food chain that's a Christmas tradition in Japan
- Bucket-list restaurant?
- Tender vender
- Chain whose spokesperson has been portrayed by RoboCop
- Col. Sanders' Co.
- Place for a bucket of food
- The Colonel's fast-food chain, briefly
- Place for food in a bucket, informally
- $5 Fill Ups chain
- Chain selling buckets
- Chain with Popcorn Nuggets
- Fast food chain whose name is an acronym
- Chain that sells buckets
- Fast-food chain with buckets
- Letters on some fast-food buckets
- Fast-food chain selling buckets
- Chick-fil-A rival
- Col. Sanders' legacy
- Where you may leave with a bucket
- Co. known for breasts and legs
- Col. Sanders' outfit
- Popeyes competitor
- The Colonel's chain
- Chain with meals in buckets
- Fast-food chain HQ'd in Louisville
- Louisville's ___ Yum! Center
- Competitor of Popeyes
- It's Finger Lickin' Good! chain
- Fast-food chain that sells egg tarts in Hong Kong
- Fast-food chain with secret herbs and spices
- Boston Mkt. competitor
- Restaurant that often shares space with Taco Bell
- Crispy Twister seller
- Seller of Colonel's Crispy Strips
- Seller of buckets
- Place you might see legs in a bucket
- Bucket letters
- Chain offering meals in buckets
- Source of $5 Fill Ups
- Chain with wings
- Seller of Chicken Littles
- Seller of the Crispy Colonel Sandwich
- Crispy Colonel Combo seller
- Chain with buckets
- Purveyor of candy-striped buckets
