Don't worry about killing the thread, that's why I have the 24-hour rule as mentioned on the first post. However, it looks like either most of everyone have been too nice to invoke it, or have too many other things going on this weekend to bother.
The forum has a pretty poor track record so far with cryptic-style clues, and yours appear to be the most complex of such clues to date. If I have time later I will try to work on it and see if I'm able to come up with anything (like I surprisingly did last time with Proxima's).