Possible Clues:

• First letters of names
• In it the sail comes last, but they all come first
• In it to start with but all at the start
• They come first by way of letters
• They're the first to come last in 11
• They're the first to come in it at the start
• The first letters to get eleven mixed up in salt
• They come first, though they're in it first
• Signs briefly
• Authorization, at times