Human Pyramid

These performers are all lined up, but they need some assistance with balancing:

“We can help these people stack them all up!”

Horizontal
Con: from take party sides before within dispute outpost (12)
Race very China sweet exotic series closing (10)
Kin "Pig!" this, with "watch" whale quotes (3 3)
End held west inner nurse (4)
Given bishop pounds creates missing backbone traveler component disguised (8)
Con: from take party sides before within dispute outpost (12)
Race very China sweet exotic series closing (10)
Kin "Pig!" this, with "watch" whale quotes (3 3)
End held west inner nurse (4)
Given bishop pounds creates missing backbone traveler component disguised (8)

Vertical
Group oddly, auntie cuckoo forming (3)
Defeats endings? Sentence (6)
Body’s offers ransom: African defense currency fronting (5)
Bit tin- dirt less makes silly string (4)
Of out sex born need: kinky state hentai libido (2 4)
Tort civil heads eyeing secret faction shyster (4)
From chant short church worded pithily service (5)
Armed ruler forces’ Moscow blinded leaders identify (3)
Group oddly, auntie cuckoo forming (3)
Defeats endings? Sentence (6)
Body’s offers ransom: African defense currency fronting (5)
Bit tin- dirt less makes silly string (4)
Of out sex born need: kinky state hentai libido (2 4)
Tort civil heads eyeing secret faction shyster (4)
From chant short church worded pithily service (5)
Armed ruler forces’ Moscow blinded leaders identify (3)
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