Possible Clues:

• Some human I maligned as non-human? Not necessarily
• Such as 13 ac
• Plate served up for the beast
• Man I maltreat, not all beast
• Mink or sable
• Brute when the sheet's turned back?
• Brute's returning all glam in acrylic trousers
• Mail an unusual version of a leading Orwell character
• Zooid
• Wolfman, some nights