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Bucketload of chickens from local KFC, fried and calorie-free?

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THE MISSING PIECE

Bucketload of chickens from local KFC, fried and calorie-free?

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THE ANSWER

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The definition

Our definition here is 'Bucketload of chickens' - a slightly playful definition, as flagged by the question mark at the end of our clue. Our answer will be, in a way, a word for a bucketload of chickens.

The wordplay

Anagram

This clue's fodder is 'local KFC' and 'calorie'. We'll need to find a substitute for one of these and use it with the letters of the other to construct our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).

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