### Clue: Closely follow the scandal of the Three Blind Mice? (8)
### Answer: TAILGATE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Closely follow
 Cryptic defn: In the nursery rhyme, the Three Blind Mice had their tails chopped off, and that episode might be refered to as TAILGATE, with the suffix "-gate" to mean a scandal, originally picked up from the Watergate scandal.
Defn: … another vehicle, say.