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 answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'of the french lines on spanish city ignoring a mention of spain' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'lines' could be 'll' (l is an abbreviation for line) and 'll' is found within the answer.
'spain' could be 'e' (abbreviation for Espana) and 'e' is found within the answer.
'of the french' could be 'du' ('of the' in French) and 'du' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for dullsville that I've seen is " not much fun here!".)