> a bunch of power resistors - 2 rows of them.

Can you put alternate resistors in a row on opposite sides of
the board and/or stagger the rows so that alternate pads are
mid-component wrt the other row ? Or bend the resistor
leads so that the resistors are in rows (if that's what you want)
but their pads are not

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