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Hot meats go with a so-so Mexican chilli in the end (9)

Got to be Pepperoni. Pep=go, chilli in the end = i, but why does so-so Mexican = peron? He was Argentinian surely, and why so-so?

I shall no doubt be kicking myself shortly… ;-)

Kicking time...
Pep - go
Per - a (£5 a head, £5 per head)
O
N
I, last letters of so-sO, mexicaN and chillI

Ta muchly. As you say, kicking time. ;-)

1d Stand firm with co-director? (11)
Looks like 'partnership', fits 'firm with co-director', but why 'stand'?

25d Painter about to fill in survey, certainly (7)
Looks like 'Pollock' but I can't parse it at all so might be something else.

1. cricket reference

25 Pollock looks good. Poll ok with c inserted.

25 D C = about , OK = certainly and Poll, survey...

Thank you. Stumped, so to speak, by a cricket reference again.