Inside me, the end always comes before the start.

AHA! Daily #003 · Friday 13 November · What am I?

The four clues

1. 1Inside me, the end always comes before the start.
2. 2Tomorrow comes before yesterday, and dessert is served before dinner.
3. 3Nothing strange is going on. I simply keep everything in order, from A to Z.
4. 4I'm the book you open to find out what a word means.

In the game you get one clue at a time: solve it on clue 1 for 100 points, clue 2 for 75, clue 3 for 50, clue 4 for 25.

Why?

In a dictionary, words appear in alphabetical order. So “end” really does come before “start”, “tomorrow” before “yesterday”, and “dessert” before “dinner”. No time paradox required, just spelling.

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