Rows in Costa following this order (12)

I believe the answer is:

altercations

'rows' is the definition.
(altercation is a kind of row)

I can't explain the remainder of the clue.

(Another definition for altercations that I've seen is " Noisy arguments".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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