"To ___ human . . . " (5 letters)

"The Human Comedy" author (7 letters)

Go astray (3 letters)

Need to be set straight (3 letters)

Pitcher's asset (3 letters)

Essence (4 letters)

Personification (6 letters)

Cruel one (4 letters)

A person (7 letters)

Trunk (5 letters)

Proboscises (5 letters)

Sonnet subject (4 letters)

Nabokov heroine and others (4 letters)

Moon-ldg. unit (3 letters)

Encompasses (5 letters)

Tooth material (6 letters)

Pitcher feature (3 letters)

Complainer (4 letters)

Adept (4 letters)

Vibrissa (4 letters)