Modern Texas

1. a method of releasing hard to get oil and natural gas
5. grid, a system of power plants, stations and cables
6. the intersection of medicine and the natural sciences
8. Guard, the part-time military forces organized by the states
10. a person who revolts against civil authority
14. a person who uses violence to advance a political cause
16. party, an organized political group that is neither Republican or Democrat
17. Recession, a severe economic slowdown that began in 2007
18. a group that forms temporarily

2. the science and technology of robot design, manufacture, and use
3. of mass destruction, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons
4. farm, a large installation of solar panels
6. a proposed law
7. a new company
9. a fuel made directly from recently living matter
11. relating to genes
12. American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico
13. Party, a conservative political movement
15. a machine that produces power by spinning