North Sea region taken by the Spanish? Nonsense (8)
I believe the answer is:
doggerel
'nonsense' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'north sea region taken by the spanish?' is the wordplay.
'north sea region' becomes 'dogger' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taken by' says to put letters next to each other.
'the spanish?' becomes 'el'.
'dogger'+'el'='DOGGEREL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for doggerel that I've seen before include "Burlesque verse" , "Badly written verse" , "Rubbishy verse" , "Very bad poetry or verse" , "Unpretentious verse" .)