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Refurbish chapel a bit in established Order (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alphabetic

'in established order' is the definition.
(in alphabetical order)

'refurbish chapel a bit' is the wordplay.
'refurbish' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'refurbished' mean this).
'chapel'+'a'+'bit'='chapelabit'
'chapelabit' anagrammed gives 'ALPHABETIC'.

(Other definitions for alphabetic that I've seen before include "showing certain things in their natural order?" , "in conventional order" , "with a first, etc" , "like characters in a demo" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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