Continent lives recalled among group forgoing alcohol (4)
I believe the answer is:
asia
'continent' is the definition.
(Asia is an example)
'lives recalled among group forgoing alcohol' is the wordplay.
'lives' becomes 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'recalled' is a reversal indicator (to recall can mean to bring something back).
'among' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are placed among others).
'group forgoing alcohol' becomes 'aa' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'is' written backwards gives 'si'.
'si' going into 'aa' is 'ASIA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asia that I've seen before include "Continent of the Hindu Kush" , "It has most of the earth's population" , "Populous area" , "Stretch of land" , "Eastern continent" .)