Possible Clues:

• Ordered like dictionary words
• Sort of order British installed in restored caliphate
• Badly chip a table, like characters in a demo
• Like some lineups
• The order going here from 11 to 8?
• Like some codes
• Pieces of chintz are ordered in this way - for wool it's the opposite
• Place in a mess with habit of every character
• With this order, there's always a starter
• Revising at a blue-chip university leaving with a first, etc