A Cryptic Dirty Dozen: Do your best!

Question

1. Age a herb salad for a cat. (8)

2. Wolfmother confused a shark. (6)

3. Alias around the Spanish leader (5)

4. The Colonel runs through that hibiscus patch (5)

5. Ursine stench holds soothing plant that's been trimmed (5)

6. "Gross!" said the Porcupine. (4)

7. Prohibit endless challenge: Record monkeys. (5-3)

8. Missouri woman's thousand and third element. Boy! (6)

9. Haphazardly I go. Unlike the Orangutan (4,5)

10. Bengali Dancing? Hank's Here! (5, 4)

11. The Swiss psychiatrist and the French reserve our theme. (3,6,4)

12. Storyteller rewrote rigid pun, darkly. (7, 7)

Bonus:

Tangled tubes occur in my volunteer position (3, 7)

(How does this relate to the theme?)

Answer 1

Age a herb salad for a cat. (8)

Bagheera
(age a herb)*

Wolfmother confused a shark. (6)

Raksha
(a shark)*

Alias around the Spanish leader (5)

Akela
AKA around EL

The Colonel runs through that hibiscus patch (5)

Hathi
t(hat hi)biscus

Ursine stench holds soothing plant that's been trimmed (5)

Baloo
BO around ALO(e)

"Gross!" said the Porcupine. (4)

Ikki
Homophone of Icky

Prohibit endless challenge: Record monkeys. (5-3)

Bandar-log
BAN+DAR(e)+LOG

Missouri woman's thousand and third element. Boy! (5)

Mowgli
MO+W+G+Li

Haphazardly I go. Unlike the Orangutan (4,5)

King Louie
(I go unlike)*

Bengali Dancing? Hank's Here! (5, 4)

Shere Khan
(hanks here)*

The Swiss psychiatrist and the French reserve our theme. (3,5,4)

The Jungle Book
THE+Jung+LE+BOOK

Storyteller rewrote rigid pun, darkly. (7, 6)

Rudyard Kipling
(rigid pun darkly)*

Tangled tubes occur in my volunteer position (3, 7)

Cub scouter?
(tubes occur)*

(How does this relate to the theme?)

Mowgli was a mancub?