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Chambers has a few definitions for Utter. The most usual is 'to say', but there's also 'to try to pass off as genuine counterfeit money'. The clue's just a double definition one.

Cheers Malone...do you use chamber's online dictionary? If so, is it a free one or subscription?

Thanks, Whetstone. I've never used the online version, I like books so much more!

1a. Entrepreneur I stone
CAPITALIST

27a. Lively dance disheartened Moses, in part
CHARLESTON

7d. Indication of two wines having little in common
PORTENT

Parses for the above please.

1 A.. I - Capital (letter) +I, ST, stone.

7 Portent, indication. The two wines overlap, have little in common...
Por(t) and (T)ent, Portent.

Thanks , I should've got CAPITALIST.

Never heard of Tent wine.

The CHARLESTON one I've worked out (contraction of CHARLTON HESTON, who played Moses on film).

Thanks, Whetstone. Tent, wine, pops up occasionally. I don't think I'd ever have got the Charleston one - the film was out before I was even born! I think it's another of the very/too old clues.

5a. One way to make the most of gold accumulation
BACKLOG

22a. Last piece of concert on radio is dance music
TANGO

26a. American hero accepting second defeat? Just the opposite
REVERSE

Parses for the above please.

A way to make the most of gold is to write LOG backwards.

Last letter of concert is T - phonetic alphabet gives TANGO

Paul REVERE with S

Thanks useby...that BACKLOG clue was pretty weak, if I understand you correctly,
i.e. Most of "GOLD" is "GOL", which is LOG backwards.