Speaker dined with Albo in evening time (5,2)

I believe the answer is:

eight pm

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'speaker dined with albo' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'evening time' is the wordplay.
'evening' becomes 'eight' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'time' becomes 'pm'.
'eight'+'pm'='EIGHT PM'

'in' is the link.

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