LCD Printing changing values (single and double digits)

I'm brand new to the Arduino world, so I jumped right in and started making something probably above my skill set. I think I exhausted my googling skills to find an answer or I'm just really bad at it, but I think it has to do with "padding" my value so it overwrites the previous value, but I'm just not sure.

Situation:
Analog reading FSR sensors to integer values.
Printing them to a LCD 1602

Issue:
Unless I use "lcd.clear()" at the end of my loop, my double-digit values will overlap the single-digit values with an extra number at the end. I just noticed how noticeable the clearing was, that I thought maybe there was a better way?

Also, my literacy for coding is really low, so feel free to tell me the right way to do things.

  //LCD print
  lcd.setCursor(0,0);
  lcd.print(array1);
  lcd.setCursor(0,1);
  lcd.print(FSR1val);

  lcd.setCursor(6,0);
  lcd.print(array2);
  lcd.setCursor(6,1);
  lcd.print(FSR2val);

  lcd.setCursor(12,0);
  lcd.print(array3);
  lcd.setCursor(12,1);
  lcd.print(potVal);

  //reset 
  delay(timer);
  **lcd.clear();  THIS WORKS, BUT NOT SURE IF ITS CORRECT**

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