Tedium of the French lines on Spanish city, ignoring a mention of Spain (10)
I believe the answer is:
dullsville
'tedium' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'of the french lines on spanish city ignoring a mention of spain' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'lines' could be 'll' (l is an abbreviation for line) and 'll' is present in the answer.
'spain' could be 'e' (abbreviation for Espana) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'of the french' could be 'du' ('of the' in French) and 'du' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for dullsville that I've seen is " not much fun here!".)