Decorate lady's cloak in orderly fashion (6)
I believe the answer is:
trimly
'in orderly fashion' is the definition.
(in a trim or orderly way)
'decorate lady's cloak' is the wordplay.
'decorate' becomes 'trim' (trimming is a kind of decorating).
'cloak' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the letters that cloak the word).
'lady' with its centre taken out is 'ly'.
'trim'+'ly'='TRIMLY'
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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