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Certainly not Falstaff for Thursday evening perhaps (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

weeknight

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'certainly not falstaff for thursday' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'evening perhaps' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'evening' could be 'night' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'night' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'week' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for weeknight that I've seen before include "evening between Monday and Friday" , "Saturday evening is not" , "will be wanting an early bedtime then?" , "time to sleep after work" , "End of working day" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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