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Help please! I don't understand the answers.
1. Packet held back, oddly, for American native Ans. Bobcat
2. First shepherd cut an attachment to leading sheep Ans. Abel
3. One hoping for success in life Ans. Biographer
4. Deadly weapon one removed from second eleven? Ans. Sten

4. One from eleven is TEN than add the S for second

Sorry I assumed you know a sten gun is a machine pistol

1. Packet held back, oddly, for American native Ans. Bobcat

packet(mailship)=boat...BaCk

1 A packet is a boat and the bc in the middle comes from odd letters of back

2 Was it Mabel the first cloned sheep?

I thought the sheep was Dolly?

You're right it was Dolly. Sorry

First shepherd cut an attachment to leading sheep Ans. Abel

Tenuous but...Cain and Abel were the first shepherds/a Judas sheep is one that leads the other to slaughter at an abattoir/Cain betrayed(was Judas)and killed Abel.

Bad clue if thats the rationale.

Abel was the first shepherd mentioned in the bible. THe attachment label then cut the L.
Maybe?