Dock covers desktop files - How to stop?

My dock is almost as wide as my screen. The problem I have is that the desktop files that are "locked" into position by Clean Up at the bottom of the screen are partway hidden by the dock. The same thing happens when I save something to the desktop and it ends up at the bottom of a column of files. Is there any way to set it so that the Clean Up/Save functions don't put files at the bottom like that?
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